Read, read, read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!
— William Faulkner
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
— Aldous Huxley
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This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
— Neil Gaiman
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
― Tom Waits
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
― Tennessee Williams
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I hate writing, I love having written.
― Dorothy Parker
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I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
― Peter De Vries
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I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
― Steven Wright
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You can’t edit a blank page.
― Nora Roberts
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with a bunch of blank paper.
— Steve Martin
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I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
—Patrick Dennis
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Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is . . . the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
― Anton Chekhov
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
— Stephen King
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Beware of advice—even this.
— Carl Sandburg
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
— Elmore Leonard
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The first draft of anything is shit.
― Ernest Hemingway
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I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of shortcuts.
— Larry L. King
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
― Robert Cormier
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
― Hunter S. Thompson
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