Writing Quotes

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

J.G. Ballard

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.

Coco J. Ginger

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Louis L'Amour

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

Raymond Chandler

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Brian Keene

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

J.C. McClean

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte

Juliet Barker

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

Victoria Klein

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Rabih Alameddine

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Tom Robbins

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

William Wadsworth

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out

Michael Ondaatje

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien