Writing Quotes

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty" "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition." "Write hard and clear about what hurts" "The first draft of anything is shit" "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change" "The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'" "I want to write the saddest lines tonight." "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "Writing is itself but the representation of speech"