Category: Writing Quotes

“I wrote it to free myself. It all happened, and I wrote it on the day it happened, and I had all this garbage in my head that had to be removed before anything else could be written.” – Susan Griffin, Woman and the Creative Process: Lighting the Dark

“I have to write. It’s a bit like shitting. It’s quite nice. Especially if you do it nicely…if it’s coming in drips and drabs or not coming at all, or being forced out, if you’re missing the rhythm, it’s no pleasure at all.” – Germaine Greer, Playboy

“I date all my work because I think poetry, or any writing, is but a reflection of the moment.” – Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles

“If you find a lot of explaining necessary, something is wrong with your material or with your approach to it.” – James Gould Cozzens, Notebook

“In a way, I used up some of my loneliness by writing.” – Truman Capote

“The art of writing, like every other art, is simpler in practice than the books about it.” – Henry Seidal Canby, Better Writing

“You may write down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou

“The truth is that the world’s great writers are apt to become the world’s great bores.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, On Reading Shakespeare

“A shallow mind thinks his writing divine; a man of sense imagines he writes tolerably well.”

“Rage is to writers what water is to fish.” – Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles