WRITERS QUOTES ABOUT WRITING

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” – Natalie Goldberg

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.” – Pat Conroy

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett AMAZING GOD QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means.” – Joan Didion

“Good writing is rewriting.” – Truman Capote

“The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.” – Erica Jong

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov

“Writing is the painting of the voice.” – Voltaire

“To write is human, to edit is divine.” – Stephen King

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anais Nin

“Writing is not an escape from reality, but an immersion into it.” – C.S. Lewis