Quotes about Writing
The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....
— Soren Kierkegaard
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
— Isabel Allende
Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
— John Owen
I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
— John Piper
Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
— John Piper
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
— John Updike
And I am the rather induced to do what little I can in this way, because I can do nothing else: being prevented, by my present weakness, from either travelling or preaching. But, blessed be God, I can still read, and write, and think. O that it may be to his glory!
— John Wesley
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
— Elton John
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
— Alice Hoffman
At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
— Lydia Millet
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
— Philip Yancey
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
— Anne Lamott