Category: Writing Quotes

“When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. But when you write, your words echo down the ages.” – Bud Gardner

“When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” – Natalia Ginsburg

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” – John Steinbeck

“There is nothing to writing; all you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.” – Marjorie Holmes

“Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure — just a big field to wander in.” – Natalie Goldberg

“I wanted to tell the world just one word. Unable to do that, I became a writer.” – Stanislaw Lec

“Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is the genuine caring, and not the games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson

“There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises, and you might not even be able to uncompromise yourself. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.” – Toni Morrison