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
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus
You are what you write. – Helvy Tiana Rosa
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. – Ray Bradbury
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. – Clarence Darrow
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. – Ernest Hemingway
Write what should not be forgotten. – Isabel Allende
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
Unlike the many sages And professors of today, I can’t write many pages When I have little to say! – Boghos L. Artinian
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can’t write, can surely review. – James Russell Lowell
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. – Che Guevara
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
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. – William Faulkner
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury
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