| "If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." »Denis Watley |
| "Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien |
| "writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen |
| "A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers |
| "writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton |
| "Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk |
| "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly |
| "Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin |
| "writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White |
| "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann |
| "Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg |
| "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking." »Horace |
| "writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein |
| "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." »Hermann Hesse |
| "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." »Truman Capote |
| "Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." »Jimmy Breslin |
| "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly |
| "writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." »Joan Baez |
| "This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher |
| "It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them." »Isabel Colegate |
| "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." »Robert Benchley |
| "Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." »Booker T. Washington |
| "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing." »S. G. Tallentyre |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
