280 Quotes About On-writing

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, and so on. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

A writer can do without food for a few hours but not without the sight of books.

If you think there is no time to write now, there will never be.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

You think it's creative... I only feel like being insane.