Quotes of the Day about Writing

"If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me."
- William Shakespeare

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

"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
- Edmund Morrison

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
- Andre Gide

"Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water."
- Robert Frost

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
- Joseph Pulitzer

Writing Quotes of the Day

“The best way is always to stop when you are going good. If you do that, you’ll never be stuck. And don’t think or worry about it until you start to write again the next day. That way your subconscious will be working on it all the time, but if you worry about it, your brain will get tired before you start again. But work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writer's have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other's logorrhea, when words come so fast that they hardly get to the wastebasket in time.”

— Cecilia Bartholomew

“When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.”

— Anais Nin

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

— Moliere

“This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'not at this address.' Just keep looking for the right address.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Hemingway's Confession

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea