Writing Quotes

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Literature is news that stays news." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "Literature is fire" "I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "The pen is the tongue of the mind" "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." "When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it." "Love is the answer to everything It's the only reason to do anything If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it" "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" "When I was a screenwriter, I was doing the work so that I could keep making a living. I wasn't really thinking, I want to be remembered for writing this movie" "There is no law that says writers have to be miserable" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write" "The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes"