Quotes about Writing
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing
— Cormac McCarthy
Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.
— Jason Fried
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.
— Edith Wharton
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
— Aldous Huxley
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
— Ernest Hemingway
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
— Jonah Hill
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
— Beth Moore
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
— William Wordsworth