1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.

Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.

Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to employ new perceptions to center oneself in a world filled with strife, conflict, violence, affection, beauty, splendor.

There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.

The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express everything that they know. Secondly, to gain a better understanding regarding concepts such as truth, beauty, love, friendship, loyalty, freedom, and the reason for existence by attempting to express in words what these ideas mean to them.

Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they do. Writers work because they don’t understand what they do and hope someone might tell them.

Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.

Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures -pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly.

Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with other human beings.