Quotes about Writing

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.

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

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

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.