1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

The night too gave up but my eyes did not find sleep!

¿Que era la ficción sino un conjunto de reglas artificiales que se desenvolvían con elegancia? Ni siquiera la mejor ficción podría aspirar jamás a ser más que sombras de la infinitamente compleja realidad.

‪If the overuse of adjectives is frowned upon in writing, why are expletives—the ones commonly used as adjectives—embraced?

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of,and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

The thing I most fear when writing is my paucity of ideas and the thinness of my emotional lining. I audaciously resolve to write about my greatest fears in an effort to transcend what I most despise about myself – intellectual and emotional poverty. Perchance by making use of all my thoughts and matrix of emotions – both positive and negative – I can escape the labyrinth constructed of my terrible ignorance of the world and an appalling lack of self-awareness.

I wish to create a piece of work that produces a permanent mark in the record book of human existence. I also write to insulate myself from leading a meaningless life. Awareness of an inescapable mortality urges me to write at a frantic pace, in a hysterical attempt to assign a purpose to my life by creating something external that endures.

I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write.(i.e. I write as I learn and I learn as I write)St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 A.D.)

I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write.

Some books are gaping tomes of blathering braggadocio, while others are cloistered pages beneath cashmere lined covers bathed in discretion. An exclusive list of readers who appreciate depth, will always be more respected than a diluted mass of lookie-loos that thrive upon mediocrity." - A.H. Scott 12/30/12