(1814 quotes found)
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
“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
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Mark Twain
“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be”
“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
“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
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde
“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
Marsha Norman
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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