Writing Quotes

"When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces."

"I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play."

"The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best."

"At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer."

"I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing."

"Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."

"When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic."

"I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology."

“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

“I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.”

“Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.”

“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.”

“I wrote "White Teeth" in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.”

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Virginia Woolf

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written."

Madeleine L'Engle

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

Anne Frank

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."

Orson Scott Card

"There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper."

Francis Crick

"I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world."

James Joyce

"You can make anything by writing."

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen."

Samuel Lover

"I write to discover what I know."

Flannery O'Connor

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

Charles Baudelaire

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."