Writing Quotes

"Tears are words that need to be written." "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "To hold a pen is to be at war." "A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity" "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do" "Here are additional famous quotes by C. S. Lewis:" "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself" "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with little screenplays and ideas and potential novels." "We write our lives indeed, but our efforts are spent making those lives livable" "I love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by" "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on" "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing." "I found that I had to find a way to protect myself because writing is a very vulnerable position." "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" "The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting."