Writing Quotes

"A word after a word after a word is power."

Margaret Atwood

"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?"

Rainer Maria Rilke

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

Stephen King

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Anaïs Nin

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

Miguel de Cervantes

“I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.”

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant.”

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

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

“Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”

“Your feelings are so important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”