More Writing Quotes


More Writing Quotes

by Adam Huddleston

 

“Writing is easy.  All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

– Mark Twain

 

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

– Stephen King

 

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

– Frank Herbert

 

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”

– Henry David Thoreau

 

“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”

– E.B.White

THE WRITING LIFE QUOTES


“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
—Elmore Leonard

The Writing Life Quotes


The Writing Life Quotes

Natalie Bright

 

“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 one book.”
—Samuel Johnson

The Writing Life Quotes


The Writing Life Quotes

Natalie Bright

 

“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
—Stephen King (Writer’s Digest 
an interview with King in our May/June 2009 issue)

The Writing Life Quotes


 

“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
—Enid Bagnold