I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. – John Steinbeck
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. – Jonathan Safran Foer
If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike. – Thomas Wolfe
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
Unlike the many sages And professors of today, I can’t write many pages When I have little to say! – Boghos L. Artinian
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. – Clarence Darrow
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it. – William Faulkner
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. – William Faulkner
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. – T.S. Eliot
Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better. – Catie Curtis
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
Writing reveals what thinking conceals. – Shane Parrish
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. – Ray Bradbury
Author is the real hero of the book and characters displaced will be his own experiences.
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