Writing
Quotes - Tears are words that need to be written
“We
have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way
down.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“Stories
may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can
sometimes pay the rent.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“The
first draft of anything is shit.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“All
you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you
know.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“If
you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot
and write a lot.”
―
Stephen King
“I
can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is
reborn.”
―
Anne Frank
“you
can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
―
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“There
are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they
are.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham
“A
writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other
people.”
―
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
“let
me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There
are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
―
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Fill
your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
―
William Wordsworth
“A
word after a word after a word is power.”
―
Margaret Atwood
“Here
is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are
transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is
show you've been to college.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“There
is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never
quite know where they'll take you.”
―
Beatrix Potter
“Tears
are words that need to be written.”
―
Paulo Coelho
“Tomorrow
may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days
nothing else matters.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“Writing
is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and
then you do it for money.”
―
Virginia Woolf
“You
can make anything by writing.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“You
must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and
climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like
hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000
days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
―
Ray Bradbury
“Being
a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet
of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“Always
be a poet, even in prose.”
―
Charles Baudelaire
“I
write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I
think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into
deepest darkness.”
―
Franz Kafka
“This
is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after
another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“You
should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the
creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading
is the finest teacher of how to write.”
―
Annie Proulx
“I
write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I
write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
―
Joss Whedon
