Quotes on Inspiring Writing

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

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

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.