{"id":1416,"date":"2015-09-06T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/?page_id=1416"},"modified":"2015-09-06T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:53:58","slug":"quotes-on-writing-by-writers-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/quotes-on-writing-by-writers-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"QUOTES ON WRITING BY WRITERS FOR WRITERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspiration. Nuggets of wisdom. Openers to let your bottled up creative juice flow.<\/h4>\n

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  1. \u201cThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.\u201d-\u00a0\u00a0Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cDon\u2019t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cStart writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Louis L\u2019Amour<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Stephen King<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cAll you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cLet me live, love, and say it well in good sentences\u201d \u2013\u00a0Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cImagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cYou can make anything by writing.\u201d \u2013\u00a0C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cA word after a word after a word is power.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cWriting is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n
  11. \u201cTears are words that need to be written.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Paulo Coelho<\/li>\n
  12. \u201cIf my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn\u2019t brood. I\u2019d type a little faster.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n
  13. \u201cYou can\u2019t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Jack London<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cThe true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.\u201d \u2013\u00a0William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts<\/li>\n
  15. \u201cThe role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.\u201d \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Ana\u00efs Nin<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cWrite what should not be forgotten.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Isabel Allende<\/li>\n
  17. \u201cI love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.\u201d \u2013\u00a0James A. Michener<\/li>\n
  18. \u201cWriting starts with living.\u201d \u2013\u00a0L.L. Barkat, Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing<\/li>\n
  19. \u201cA true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.\u201d-\u00a0Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n
  20. Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Margaret Jean Langstaff, Marlin, Darlin’: Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1<\/li>\n
  21. \u201cMy only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Judy Blume<\/li>\n
  22. \u201cI like to say there are three things that are required for success as a writer: talent, luck, discipline. It can be in any combination, but there\u2019s nothing you do to influence the first two. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.\u201d
    \n\u2014Michael Chabon<\/li>\n
  23. \u201cThe best books come from someplace deep inside\u2026. Become emotionally involved. If you don\u2019t care about your characters, your readers won\u2019t either.\u201d-\u00a0Judy Blume<\/li>\n
  24. \u201cAn inspirational writer\u2019s life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Shannon L. Alder<\/li>\n
  25. \u201cThe secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Richard Harding Davis<\/li>\n
  26. \u201cStay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Jonas Eriksson<\/li>\n
  27. \u201cI would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.\u201d \u2013 Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977<\/li>\n
  28. \u201cIf there\u2019s a book you really want to read, but it hasn\u2019t been written yet, then you must write it.\u201d -Toni Morrison<\/li>\n
  29. \u201cIt is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.\u201d \u2013 Vita Sackville-West<\/li>\n
  30. \u201cNot a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Hunter S. Thompson<\/li>\n
  31. \u201cEvery secret of a writer\u2019s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.\u201d\u2014Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n
  32. \u201cWhen I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, \u2018I am going to produce a work of art.\u2019 I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.\u201d\u2014George Orwell<\/li>\n
  33. \u201cThe time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.\u201d -Mark Twain<\/li>\n
  34. \u201cFill your paper with the breathings of your heart.\u201d -William Wordsworth<\/li>\n
  35. \u201cIf I don\u2019t write to empty my mind, I go mad.\u201d -Lord Byron<\/li>\n
  36. \u201cIt is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Paul Gallico<\/li>\n
  37. \u201cThe difference between the almost right word and the right word is \u2026 the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.\u201d\u2014Mark Twain<\/li>\n
  38. \u201cThe best time for planning a book is while you\u2019re doing the dishes.\u201d -Agatha Christie<\/li>\n
  39. \u201cIt is said that you can\u2019t write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can\u2019t read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well\u2026..problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Richelle E. Goodrich<\/li>\n
  40. \u201cWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.\u201d- Jorge Luis Borges<\/li>\n
  41. \u201cI confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.\u201d \u2013 Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n
  42. \u201cWhen writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.\u201d\u2014Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n
  43. \u201cWrite while the heat is in you. \u2026 The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.\u201d
    \n\u2014Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n
  44. \u201cA good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.\u201d \u2013 W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938<\/li>\n
  45. \u201cIf the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Hugh Prather<\/li>\n
  46. \u201cAs to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain, Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson, 1894<\/li>\n
  47. \u201cThe paper is patient, but the reader is not.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert<\/li>\n
  48. \u201cThe good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.\u201d \u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n
  49. \u201cHaving imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.\u201d \u2013 Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927<\/li>\n
  50. \u201cThe most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.\u201d \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Gide, Journals, 1894<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are just 50 of my favorite writing quotes. Yes, I have more to add to this list. What\u2019s your favorite writing quote? Drop a comment and will add it to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Inspiration. Nuggets of wisdom. Openers to let your bottled up creative juice flow. \u201cThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.\u201d-\u00a0\u00a0Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings \u201cDon\u2019t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Anton Chekhov \u201cStart writing, no matter what. The water does not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}