Writing Quotes


You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury


You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. - Horace


You might think of it as Harry Potter . You don't necessarily have to see the first one to enjoy the second one. The great thing that Carlton and Damon have done in writing this story line is that it reaches back into season one, looks at the current season and goes forward into the future. - Mike Benson


You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. - Mary MacLane


You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. - Earl Wilson


You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. - Bryant H. McGill


You look at Beethoven's sketch book and he's working things out, trying this, trying that. Mozart didn't do that. He simply wrote it out. Beethoven did not have the same abilities that Mozart had. And you know how much Beethoven means to us. When you listen to the Ninth Symphony, it's one of the greatest accomplishments of all mankind, artistically certainly. But he shuddered when he thought of the shadow Mozart cast over music and he felt pressure, just like Brahms felt the pressure Beethoven's Ninth put on symphonic writing. - George Hanson


You learn a lot, writing fiction. - Penelope Lively


You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. - Adam Pascal


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