"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." - Walter Wellesley Smith
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury
"So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say and so often, one regrets having marred it." - Harold Acton
"The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our eqilibrium." - Norbet Platt
"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emtily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. that is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop." - Vita Sackville
"Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say." - Sharon O'Brien
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be as it should be." - Mark Twain
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm a very good rewriter." - James Michener
"The wastebasket is the writer's best friend." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until their typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction." - Dylan Thomas
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." - William Wordsworth
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." - Vladimir Nabakov
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov
"Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister and occasionally mortal enemies." - Emme Woodhull-Bache
"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." - Orson Scott Card
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug." - Mark Twain
"The story I am writing exists, written an absolutely perfect fashion, some place in the air. All I must do is find it and copy it." - Jules Renard
"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer." - Karl Kraus
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter and keeps on writing prose." - Samuel McChord
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions." - James Michener
"Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong." - Jeb Dickerson
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." - Peter De Vries
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." - Catherine Drinker Bowen
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is now what it's about, but the inner music the words make." - Truman Capote
"Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum." - Graycie Harmon
"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By the time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say." - Mark Twain
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." - Charles Peguy
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath
"I would hurl into this darkness and wait for an echo and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all." - Richard Wright
"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." - Elmore Leonard
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison
"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." - Logan Pearsall Smith
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." - Oscar Wilde
"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..." - Lawrence Clark Powell
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. - Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. - John Jakes
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow
"Write without pay until someone offers to pay." - Mark Twain
"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else." - Ivern Ball
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area." - Nadine Gordimer
"Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some under-culture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. - Don Delillo
"I lived to write and wrote to live." - Samuel Rogers
"I don't like to write, but I love to have written." - Michael Kanin
"Writing eases my suffering...writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence." - Gao Xingjian
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." - Joan Didion
"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call." - Liz Carpenter
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public." - Winston Churchill
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." - E.L. Doctorow
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer
"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn out word - but astonish." - Terry Southern
"Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public and get paid for it." - Octavia Butler
"Writing is thinking on paper." - William Zinsser
"If you know what you are going to write when writing a poem, then it is going to be average." - Derek Walcott
"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble." - Benjamin Franklin
"Writing is easy; all you have to do is sit and staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Gene Fowler
"Writing only leads to more writing." - Sidonie Gabrielle
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadows of the past where time hovers ghostlike." - Ralph Emerson
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people and they come after you with machettes." - Dave Barry
"Writing is a prostitution. First you do it for love and then for a few close friends and then for money." - Moliere
"Don't get it right, just get it written." - James Thurber
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." - Lord Byron
"I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes..." - Philip Dusenberry
"Whether or not you write well, write bravely." - Bill Stout
"One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time and in others' minds." - Alfred Kazin
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis." - William Styron
"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators." - Olin Miller
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melanchoolia, the panic fear, which is inherit of human condition." - Graham Greene
"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon." - Henry Louis Mencken
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living." - Anne Morrow Lindgergh
"Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness." - Georges Simenon
"You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also; Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through." - Vincent van Gogh
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