AND EVEN MORE WRITING QUOTES...

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

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

 

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus

 

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov

 

Tears are words that need to be written. — Paulo Coelho

 

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank

 

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

 

Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. — William Faulkner

 

Half my life is an act of revision. — John Irving

 

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. — Stephen King

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What's your favorite quote about writing?

10 MORE WRITING QUOTES

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. — Stephen King

 

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. — Harper Lee, WD

 

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. — Elmore Leonard

 

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. — Norman Mailer

 

Writing is its own reward. — Henry Miller

 

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

 

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

 

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. — Phillip Roth

 

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.— John Steinbeck

 

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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What's your favorite quote about writing?