writing Quotes

“You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback — it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:writing pleasure

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“A good phrase, however, seems to me to have an independent existence. Yet I think it is likely that the best are made in solitude.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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