Writing Quotes

• I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Rest

• Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Writing

• What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Writing

• Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Foundation

• Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

  

  Alex Flinn
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Fun

• I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Writing

• Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Writing

• I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • Writing

• I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.

  

  John Branch
  • Writing

• If thou need money, get it in an honest way-by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Writing
  • Money

• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  

  Red Smith
  • Drop
  • Bleed
  • Typewriter

• I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • True
  • Food
  • Cat

• To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

  

  William Feather
  • Thinking
  • Simplicity
  • Understood

• I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Writing

• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • War
  • Together
  • Government

• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Quality

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Empathy

• I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Men
  • Book
  • Dream

• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

  

  William E. Simon
  • Important
  • Charity
  • Mercy

• A lot of people have already been impacted by the Life Cube Project and the principles behind it. They write to me and post on social media all the time, about their dreams coming true after writing them down, or how writing down their goals resonated with them.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

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