Quotes on Writing for Writerly Soul Inspiration
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What do writers say about writing? Check out these revealing quotes about writing...
Quotes about writing - I've been collecting them for years. Here are a few of my current favorites.
Writers love to write about writing, and so there are many sources for information if you're learning to write. As for you who have been writing like forever... it is always fun to read more.
Quotes about writing are short inspirations to give you a tiny bit of motivation to keep on writing, even if the sky is dark, the rain is coming down, your rejection slips are accumulating, and your work-in-progress has warped into a nightmare. Keep writing anyway. Keep loving it. Just keep on.
Writers love to write about writing, and so there are many sources for information if you're learning to write. As for you who have been writing like forever... it is always fun to read more.
Quotes about writing are short inspirations to give you a tiny bit of motivation to keep on writing, even if the sky is dark, the rain is coming down, your rejection slips are accumulating, and your work-in-progress has warped into a nightmare. Keep writing anyway. Keep loving it. Just keep on.
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Writing is solitary work
...you need to be alone.
"The starting point of true literature is the man who shuts himself up in his room with his books."
-- Orhan Pamuk - from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
-- Orhan Pamuk - from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
Writers can relax and still be working
...it's all write!
"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
-- Flannery O'Connor
-- Flannery O'Connor
Writers are self-determined and independent.
...you too can have a happy writer life!
"There is also the minority of gifted, willful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class."
-- George Orwell
-- George Orwell
Writing is 90% thinking and experiencing
...and 10% writing.
"If you spend eight hours a day thinking about something obsessively, you're bound to be ahead of anyone else. Then once you're ahead, in terms of what you know about the subject, you add a dash of melodrama, and there you are."
-- Richard Condon
-- Richard Condon
Writing lasts a long time
...your shot at writing immortality is here!
"Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, 'Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!"
-- William Attwood
-- William Attwood
Writers reveal the workings of their inner mind with their writing
...it's a risk a writer has to take.
"The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer . . . no good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind."
-- Henry James
-- Henry James
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...writing is a great business to be in.
Writing doesn't come easy
...just ask a writer about this one!
"Ideas come very easily with you, incessantly, like a stream. With me, it is a tiny thread of water. Hard labor at art is necessary for me before attaining a waterfall."
-- Gustave Flaubert
-- Gustave Flaubert
Writing can be a great profession
...if you treat it as a profession.
"What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it is raining."
-- Noel Coward
-- Noel Coward
Writers can be excessive
...especially when it comes to writing.
"A novelist's vice usually resembles his virtue, for what he does best he also tends to do to excess."
-- John Irving
-- John Irving
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