![]() ![]() “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. It’s that easy, and that hard.” – Neil Gaiman “This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” – Beatrix Potter “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway “All you have to do is write one true sentence. “After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour ![]() ![]() It’s just the place where you stop the story.” – Frank Herbert “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” – Stephen King ’Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” – Saul Bellow If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin “Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” – J.K. “If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” – Wally Lamb “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” – Stephen King “Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.” – Anne McCaffrey A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” – Samuel Johnson “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. What should I do?’ I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.” – Ruth Rendell “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” – Shannon Hale “If there’s a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult “Character is plot, plot is character.” – F. “What I’ve learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. “The real story is not the plot but how the characters unfold by it.” – Vanna Bonta “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” – Ray Bradbury “In good writing, words become one with things.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson ![]() “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” – E.L. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.” – Libba Bray, The Diviners “A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle what is inside the book is what matters.” – Angela Carter “The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.” – Joyce Carol Oates “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” – Peter Handke “Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.” – Ayn Rand “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” – Ernest Hemingway “To survive, you must tell stories.” – Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before “You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Quotes About Writing by Authors “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” – Martin Luther “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau “I can shake off everything as I write my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank Quotes About Writing by Historical Figures “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin If you’re looking for a way to encourage your class to put pen to paper, check out this list of 100 relatable quotes about writing from authors, poets, and other influential figures. As you look through this list of quotes about writing, you’ll discover many of the great authors actually feel the same way. That’s one of the reasons inspiring students to write can be a challenge. Many students say the hardest part of school is writing. ![]()
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