Writing Quotes
Quotes about writing and the writer's life. This hand-picked collection brings together 23 of the finest writing quotes ever written — from Lord Byron, Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Writing is thinking on paper.
A drop of ink may make a million think.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he has been driven by something.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
I want to go on living even after my death.
To write a love letter, you must begin without knowing what you intend to say, and end without knowing what you have written.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
The scariest moment is always just before you start writing.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Our sad moments will also be part of our story — write them honestly.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.