Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.
Jack Dann
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
Melinda Haynes
Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.
Anonymous
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Anonymous
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
Ursula K. LeGuin
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
Stephen Leigh
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Thomas Carlyle
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Octavia E. Butler