20 Brilliant Quotes on Writing for Every Author

20 Brilliant Quotes on Writing for Every Author...


20 Brilliant Quotes on Writing for Every Author

TOP 20 Quotes about Writing


1. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”


Maya Angelou, 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


2. “You can make anything by writing.”

C.S. Lewis, 1950

3. “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

Toni Morrison, 1981

4. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

Terry Pratchett, Writing Advice

5.“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

Mark Twain

6. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

Louis L’Amour

7. “Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.”

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

8. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

Stephen King, On Writing, 2000

9. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

Margaret Atwood, 1983

10. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, 1990

11. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

Stephen King, On Writing, 2000

12. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

Anaïs Nin

13. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1947

14. “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

David McCullough

15. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

William Wordsworth

16. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

Anton Chekhov

17. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

Thomas Mann

18. “The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

Anaïs Nin

19. “Writing is the painting of the voice.”

Voltaire

20. “A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”

Eugene Ionesco


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