“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
Tag: Quote
Quote – Neil Gaiman
“When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: ‘House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
― Neil Gaiman
Quote – George Orwell
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell
28 Inspirational or Humorous Quotes by Writers
A small collection of fantastic quotes about writing that always put a smile on my face!
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1.”A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
– Sidney Sheldon
2. “A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run.”
– Channing Pollock
3. “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
– E.L. Doctorow
4. “What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
– Burton Rascoe
5. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King
6. “It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.”
– Uniek Swain
7. “An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
– Gustave Flaubert
8. “If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams.”
– Terri Guillemets
9. “Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
– Robert Benchley
10. “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
– Truman Capote
11. “I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
– Stephen King
12. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
– G. K. Chesterton
13. “Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
– Robert Benchley
14. “The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
– André Gide
15. “Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear – and devils, too.”
– Terri Guillemets
16. “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard
17. “I write because I’m afraid to say some things out loud.”
– Gordon Atkinson
18. “If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams.”
– Terri Guillemets
19. “It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.”
– Sinclair Lewis
20. “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
– Saul Bellow
21. “Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.”
– Samuel Johnson
22. “Most editors are failed writers – but so are most writers.”
– T.S. Eliot
23. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
– Don Marquis
24. “A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.”
– Baltasar Gracián
25. “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
– James Michener
26. “Asking a writer what they think about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it thinks about dogs.”
– Christopher Hampton
27. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”
– Jack London
28. “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
– Robert Benchley