Writer Quotes

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write - Martin Luther

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper 

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. - Aristotle

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. - Samuel Johnson

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. - Joseph Joubert

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jefferson

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head. - Mike Rich

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. - Margaret Atwood

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. - Joss Whedon

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. -Anais Nin

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath,

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. - Mark Twain 

The scariest moment is always just before you start. - Stephen King 

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow 

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour 

A word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. - Virginia Woolf

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. - Joss Whedon

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

 If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. - Anais Nin

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Write what should not be forgotten. - Isabel Allende

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

 I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James Michener

 Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. - Jules Renard

One should use common words to say uncommon things - Arthur Schopenhauer

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? - E.M. Forster

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. - Jessamyn West

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! - Jackie Collins

You are what you write. - Helvy Tiana Rosa

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. - Samuel Johnson