Writing Quotes of the Day

“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.”—Leo Rosten

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”—Rainer Maria Rilke

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”—Hart Crane

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous”—Robert Benchley