Writing Quotes

“Writers are a courageous lot. Often embattled by confusion, distraction and persistent dissatisfaction, they fight through pain, sweat and tears, as well as the unforgiving blinding glare of the blank page, to bring their thoughts forth.  As the internal war rages, they are capable of great victories, and great defeats. Yet, in the face of creative adversity those who choose to break free and follow the beacon of truth, emotion and passion have the indefensible power to emancipate themselves, and thus the reader, with their bravery and well-chosen words—a  singular, yet shared, freedom of being truly beholden to no one, and nothing, except their soul that calls to them.” -Anthony J.W. Benson

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.” — Anaïs Nin

“You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis

“Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ” — Joss Whedon

“The first draft of anything is shit.” — Ernest Hemingway

“You are what you write.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa (Risalah Cinta)

“I hate writing, I love having written.” — Dorothy Parker

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.” — Anaïs Nin

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.” — Laurie Halse Anderson

“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” — Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“Writers are a courageous lot. Often embattled by confusion, distraction and persistent dissatisfaction, they fight through pain, sweat and tears, as well as the unforgiving blinding glare of the blank page, to bring their thoughts forth.  As the internal war rages, they are capable of great victories, and great defeats. Yet, in the face of creative adversity those who choose to break free and follow the beacon of truth, emotion and passion have the indefensible power to emancipate themselves, and thus the reader, with their bravery and well-chosen words—a  singular, yet shared, freedom of being truly beholden to no one, and nothing, except their soul that calls to them.” -Anthony J.W. Benson

“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.” — Louisa May Alcott

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” — Stephen King (On Writing)

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” — Colette

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” — Henry Ward Beecher

 

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