If you wish to be a writer, write. – Epictetus
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
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. – Ernest Hemingway
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury
Author is the real hero of the book and characters displaced will be his own experiences.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. – Jules Renard
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. – Henry David Thoreau
Look in your heart & write.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. – William Faulkner
The greater the complication, the richer the tale. – Thor F. Jensen
Whenever I have a massage to tell the world, a book and a pen are the first to know.
I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone. – Marvin Harris
Having painstakingly reduced an idea to a three-word quote: “Chaos breeds opportunities.” I was surprised to find the exact quote said by many on the internet. The lesson: the shorter the quote the more the probability that others have also independently said it. – Boghos L. Artinian
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. – Alfred Hitchcock
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. – Jules Renard
I’ve always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It’s up to you to write the ending, ultimately. – Lynn Johnston
May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings. – Gordon B. Hinckley
To be a writer you need to spend most of the time alone.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
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