Quotes about Writing
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
- Ann Voskamp
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
- John Milton
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Cicero
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
- Mark Twain
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
- Robert Frost
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
- William Faulkner
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
- WP Kinsella
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
- Ellen Glasgow
The best place to solve a problem is on paper.
- Jim Rohn
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Because paper has more patience than people.
- Anne Frank
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