24 quotes
“Writers dont write from experience though many are reluctant to admit that they dont. If you wrote from experience youd get maybe one book maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy and creativity.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“Write what should not be forgotten. Create what needs to exist.”
— Isabel Allende
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
— Thomas Mann
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story you never quite know where they will take you but kindness guides every pen”
— Beatrix Potter
“The new year stands before us like a chapter in a book waiting to be written with healing ink”
— Melody Beattie
“I write you and in writing am transformed”
— Clarice Lispector
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems”
— Wislawa Szymborska
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright and make it their own through creativity.”
— Aaron Sorkin
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
— Walt Whitman
“If there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
— Toni Morrison
“We write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospect”
— Anais Nin
“If you do not see the book you want on the shelf write it and fill it with kindness”
— Beverly Cleary
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed creatively.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself”
— Albert Camus
“There is nothing to writing all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”
“I apologize for such a long letter I did not have time to write a short one”
— Mark Twain
“If there is a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet then you must write it. That is the creative impulse.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”
— Ray Bradbury
“I write to discover what I know. Writing is a creative act of self-revelation.”
— Flannery OConnor
“If you wish to be a writer write”
— Epictetus
“If there is a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet you must be the one to write it”
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
— William Wordsworth
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy your creativity.”
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