Quotes about Writing

Write like you talk. Often.

orr we find a typo in a book.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.

When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.

I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of—I am however young writing at random—straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness—without knowing the bearing of any one assertion of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

Finally, the perpetuity of the Law appears in God's writing it in the hearts of His people at their new birth.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.