132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.