280 Quotes About On-writing

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

There is beauty even in the ugliest mess, and it's the artist's job to find it.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.