Quotes on Writing
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
~Oscar Wilde
"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."
~Edward Albee
"A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing."
~Eugene Ionesco
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
~Isaac Asimov
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
~Robert A. Heinlein
"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."
~Jesse Stuart
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
~Isaac Asimov
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
~E.L. Doctorow
"A metaphore is like a simile."
~Author Unknown
"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."
~Author Unknown
"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke."
~Arthur Polotnik
"There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write."
~Mignon McLaughlin
"A man will turn over half a library to make one book."
~Samuel Johnson
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
~James Michener
"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
~Goethe
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant."
~Edna Ferber