Writing Quotes

"Tears are words that need to be written." "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." "You want to be a writer? Start writing You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now." "The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting." "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" "I found that I had to find a way to protect myself because writing is a very vulnerable position." "The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing." "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on" "I love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by" "We write our lives indeed, but our efforts are spent making those lives livable" "I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with little screenplays and ideas and potential novels." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself" "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do" "A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity" "To hold a pen is to be at war." "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" "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."