Quotes about Writing

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize