Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Herman HesseI can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo NerudaIf a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane AustenTears are words that need to be written.
Paulo CoelhoWriting is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds
Douglas AdamsAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayI cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo CoelhoI am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother TeresaI have my favorite cat who is my paperweight on my desk while I am writing.
Ray BradburyA writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy RooneyEach age it is found must write its own books, or rather each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen KingI wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan PoeThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya AngelouWhat a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainNobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat, and drunk, and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel JohnsonLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides, and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. LewisThe very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark TwainThere is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly, sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest HemingwayA person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
Jane AustenI just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi HendrixSubstitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very", your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark TwainWriting is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story, rife with character and plot.
William ShatnerMethod is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
Joseph AddisonIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon HillThe typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar WildeI should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin FranklinFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayWriters are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo CoelhoAll good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeShow me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoHomer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
AristotleAbout the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh BillingsOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
William ShakespeareIf I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonI knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl SandburgSometimes reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice WalkerI've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest HemingwayOne of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude SteinA good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis SingerHaving imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.
Franklin Pierce AdamsThe only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
Chuck PalahniukI'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo CoelhoMy aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest HemingwayDon't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
Babe RuthBut I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord ByronIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinI try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
Chuck PalahniukGood sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HoraceYou can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Chuck PalahniukYou know the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story you follow a lead and that leads you to something else, and then by the time you finish the story is nothing like you expected.
William ShatnerI'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis MorissetteWriting a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public.
Winston ChurchillAt some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis MorissetteSwedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up.
William Blake