Quotes on Writing

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

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

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.