Writing Quotes

I am not much of a writer, but I always wanted to be a writer. I always dreamed that I will take a break from my hectic schedule and maybe take a creative writing course. Then Blogs happened and I started blogging, but I was no Wonkette nor was I Belle Du Jour and my blog ended up being read by few handful of family and friends. I still dream that I will finish a Novel someday, at least an autobiography if I were to become popular.

Till then, I would have to make do with quoting others, and try to inspire myself with these writing quotes

The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn’t to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.
~George Buchanan

I don’t like to write, but I love to have written.
~Michael Kanin

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.
~Monica Dickens

I lived to write, and wrote to live.
~Samuel Rogers

Writing counts.
~Allyson Dickey

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
~Don Delillo

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
~Nadine Gordimer

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
~James T. Farrell

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
~Ivern Ball

The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
~Mark Twain

There are many reasons why novelists write ñ but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.
~John Fowles

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
~E. L. Doctorow

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
~Melinda Haynes

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
~Oscar Wilde

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.
~Thomas Berger

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
~Cyril Connolly

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
~Oscar Wilde

Every word written is a victory against death.
~Michel Butor

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow…
~Lawrence Clark Powell

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me.
~Jack Dann

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
~John Jakes

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
~Edward Gibbon

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