There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
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
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. – Ray Bradbury
An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice. – Mark Twain
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. – Sylvia Plath
I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell. – Kristen Stewart
Write what should not be forgotten. – Isabel Allende
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
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
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
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
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
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. – William Faulkner
Whenever I have a massage to tell the world, a book and a pen are the first to know.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone. – Marvin Harris
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