Writing Quotes

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Tears are words that need to be written.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

One should use common words to say uncommon things