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.
I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone. – Marvin Harris
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. – William Faulkner
Writing that lacks simplicity reveals thinking that lacks understanding. – Shane Parrish
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. – Jules Renard
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. – Jules Renard
Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better. – Catie Curtis
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.
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
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury
I write down my thoughts here. If you don’t understand any, I would appreciate if you could skip it rather than criticizing it.
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. – Alfred Hitchcock
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. – T.S. Eliot
To write is to read one’s own self. – Max Frisch
Author is the real hero of the book and characters displaced will be his own experiences.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. – Charles Caleb Colton
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
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