(2047 quotes found)
“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
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
Anais Nin
“A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.”
Madeleine L'Engle
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
Napoleon Hill
“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”
Nadine Gordimer
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I lived to write, and wrote to live”
Samuel Rogers
“To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write”
Gertrude Stein
