You Have A Choice In This World, I Believe, About How To Tell Sad Stories.
- Unknown
You Go To Movies To See People You Love Suffer – That’s Why You Go To The Movies. You Don’t Go To See A Movie About A Guy Who Already Knows He Has A Wonderful Life.
- Joss Whedon
If Writers Stopped Writing About What Happened To Them, Then There Would Be A Lot Of Empty Pages.
- Elaine Liner
Why Do Writers Write? Because It Isn’t There.
- Thomas Berger
Reading Stories Is Bad Enough But Writing Them Is Worse.
- L. M. Montgomery
There Are A Lot Of People Who Can’t Write And Maybe Shouldn’t Write.
- Sarah Hepola
Better To Write For Yourself And Have No Public, Than To Write For The Public And Have No Self.
- Cyril Connolly
A Writer Is A Person For Whom Writing Is More Difficult Than It Is For Other People.
- Thomas Mann
Please Write Again Soon. Though My Own Life Is Filled With Activity, Letters Encourage Momentary Escape Into Others Lives And I Come Back To My Own With Greater Contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
She Was Discovering Once Again That Reading And Writing Were Not The Same-You Couldn’t Just Soak It Up Then Squeeze It Out Again.
- David Nicholls
Writing Well Means Never Having To Say, ‘I Guess You Had To Be There.’
- Jef Mallett
This Is The Sixth Book I’ve Written, Which Isn’t Bad For A Guy Who’s Only Read Two.
- George Burns
The Only Reason For Being A Professional Writer Is That You Can’t Help It.
- Leo Rosten
The First Step In Blogging Is Not Writing Them But Reading Them.
- Jeff Jarvis
Literature Is An Occupation In Which You Have To Keep Proving Your Talent To People Who Have None.
- Jules Renard
Detail Makes The Difference Between Boring And Terrific Writing. It’s The Difference Between A Pencil Sketch And A Lush Oil Painting. As A Writer, Words Are Your Paint. Use All The Colors.
- Rhys Alexander
In Comparing Various Authors With One Another, I Have Discovered That Some Of The Gravest And Latest Writers Have Transcribed, Word For Word, From Former Works, Without Making Acknowledgment.
- Pliny the Elder
People Do Tell A Writer Things That They Don’t Tell Others. I Don’t Know Why, Unless It Is That Having Read One Or Two Of His Books They Feel On Peculiarly Intimate Terms With Him; Or It May Be That They Dramatize Themselves And, Seeing Themselves As It Were As Characters In A Novel, Are Ready To Be As Open With Him As They Imagine The Characters Of His Invention Are.
- W. Somerset Maugham
When You Write Things Down, They Sometimes Take You Places You Hadn’t Planned.
- Melanie Benjamin
At Least Half The Mystery Novels Published Violate The Law That The Solution, Once Revealed, Must Seem To Be Inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler
The Reason Why So Few Good Books Are Written Is That So Few People Who Can Write Know Anything.
- Walter Bagehot
Beneath The Rule Of Men Entirely Great, The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
All A Good Letter Has To Do Is Make You Feel Special.
You Can’t Think Yourself Out Of A Writing Block, You Have To Write Yourself Out Of A Thinking Block.
- John Rogers
I Always Wrote With The Idea That What I Put Out There Is Going To Stay There. Once I Publish Something, It Has Been Published. I’ve Never Deleted More Than One Or Two Posts From My Site. I Don’t Think That There Are Takebacks. I Don’t Feel Right About It.
- Alison Headley
The Reserve Of Modern Assertions Is Sometimes Pushed To Extremes, In Which The Fear Of Being Contradicted Leads The Writer To Strip Himself Of Almost All Sense And Meaning.
- Sir Winston Churchill
If I Wrote What I Really Think, I Would Be So Sad All The Time. We Create To Fill A Gap – Not Just To Avoid The Idea Of Dying, It’s To Fill Some Particular Gap In Ourselves.
Say All You Have To Say In The Fewest Possible Words, Or Your Reader Will Be Sure To Skip Them; And In The Plainest Possible Words Or He Will Certainly Misunderstand Them.
- John Ruskin
This Is Pretty Much What Journals Are All About, At Least To Me. I Knew As I Wrote Them That Even Though They Provided An Excellent Place For Brain (And Heart, And Psyche) Dump, They Were Mainly A Map Of Me.
- Colleen Wainwright
Not Every Story Has Explosions And Car Chases. That’s Why They Have Nudity And Espionage.
The Cure For Writer’s Cramp Is Writer’s Block.
- Inigo DeLeon
A Great Writer Reveals The Truth Even When He Or She Does Not Wish To.
- Tom Bissell
It Took Me Fifteen Years To Discover That I Had No Talent For Writing, But I Couldn’t Give It Up Because By That Time I Was Too Famous.
- Robert Benchley
The Way You Define Yourself As A Writer Is That You Write Every Time You Have A Free Minute. If You Didn’t Behave That Way You Would Never Do Anything.
- John Irving
I’m All In Favor Of Keeping Dangerous Weapons Out Of The Hands Of Fools. Let’s Start With Typewriters.
- Solomon Short
No Passion In The World Is Equal To The Passion To Alter Someone Else’s Draft.
- H. G. Wells
Keep Writing. Keep Doing It And Doing It. Even In The Moments When It’s So Hurtful To Think About Writing.
- Heather Armstrong
I Think People Want Their Illusions And Writers Are Mostly Illusion. When You Read Their Words, You Read A Flattened, Incomplete Version Of The Writer.
- Gordon Atkinson
You Must Not Come Lightly To The Blank Page.
- Stephen King
If You Want To Write You Must Have Faith In Yourself. Faith Enough To Believe That If A Thing Is True About You, It Is Likely True About Many People. And If You Can Have Faith In Your Integrity And Your Motives, Then You Can Write About Yourself Without Fear.
The Best Way To Become Acquainted With A Subject Is To Write A Book About It.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I Never Feel That I Have Comprehended An Emotion, Or Fully Lived Even The Smallest Events, Until I Have Reflected Upon It In My Journal; My Pen Is My Truest Confidant, Holding In Check The Passions And Disappointments That I Dare Not Share Even With My Beloved.
- Stephanie Barron
I Take The View, And Always Have, That If You Cannot Say What You Are Going To Say In Twenty Minutes You Ought To Go Away And Write A Book About It.
- Lord Brabazon
A Scrupulous Writer, In Every Sentence That He Writes, Will Ask Himself At Least Four Questions, Thus: 1. What Am I Trying To Say? 2. What Words Will Express It? 3. What Image Or Idiom Will Make It Clearer? 4. Is This Image Fresh Enough To Have An Effect?
- George Orwell
I Go To Movies Expecting To Have A Whole Experience. If I Want A Movie That Doesn’t End, I’ll Go To A French Movie. A Movie Has To Be Complete Within Itself; It Can’t Just Build Off The First One Or Play Variations.
The Only Thing I Was Fit For Was To Be A Writer, And This Notion Rested Solely On My Suspicion That I Would Never Be Fit For Real Work, And That Writing Didn’t Require Any.
- Russell Baker
The Key To Non-Anxious Sermon-Writing Is That It’s Not About Me. It’s About The Congregation. I Honor The Fact That The Listeners Bring More To The Sermon Than I Do. I Remind Myself Of The Hundreds Of Times Someone Says, ‘I Loved How You Said?’ And Then Tell Me Things That They Heard That Were Nowhere In My Text And That I Never Said. But They Heard What They Needed To Hear.
- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
I Have Never Thought Of Writing As Hard Work, But I Have Worked Hard To Find A Voice.
- Randy Pausch
There Are Three Rules For Writing The Novel. Unfortunately, No One Knows What They Are.
Words, Once They Are Printed, Have A Life Of Their Own.
- Carol Burnett
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