Quotes about Writing
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
— WP Kinsella
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
— Ellen Glasgow
The best place to solve a problem is on paper.
— Jim Rohn
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Because paper has more patience than people.
— Anne Frank
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing
— Cormac McCarthy
Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.
— Jason Fried
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.
— Edith Wharton
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
— Aldous Huxley
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
— Ernest Hemingway