Writing keeps you honest by revealing your understanding or lack of it. – Shane Parrish
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
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword, having the capacity to change narratives and landscapes. As writers, we have a moral responsibility to leave the world a better place. – Adiela Akoo
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions. – Mason Cooley
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
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
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
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
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
If you wish to be a writer, write. – Epictetus
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