Best Quotes on Writing

Here are some of my favorite quotes on writing:

WRITING QUOTES

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”  -E.L. Doctorow

“Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.”  –Samuel Paterson

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”  –Mark Twain

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”  –W.H. Auden

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”  –Garrison Keillor

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”  –Theodore Parker

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”  –Washington Irving

“The secret to success is constancy to purpose.”  –Benjamin Disraeli

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”  –Henry David Thoreau

“If there’s a book you really want to read and it hasn’t been written yet, then you write it.”  –Toni Morrison

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”  –Gloria Steinem

“Write down the thought of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”  –Francis Bacon, Sr.

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

  –Saul Bellow

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

  –James Bryce

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”  –Henry David Thoreau

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”  –Oscar Wilde

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”  –Jack London

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”  –Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you’ve got something to say.”  –F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A foundation in discipline is always the first step toward victory.”  -James Scott Bell

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”  -E.L. Doctorow

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