More Quotes About Writing

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

     - Roald Dahl

A writer ought to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

     - Mark Twain

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

     - Isaac Asimov

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

     - Cyril Connolly

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

     - Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

     - John D MacDonald

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

     - Jules Renard

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed, and quietly putting one bead on after another.

     - Brenda Ueland

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

     - Leo Rosten

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

     - Edward Gibbon

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

     - Anne Lamott

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

     - Somerset Maugham

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

     - Anais Nin

I write to get out of jail.

     - Tom Stoppard

The problem is when you're not writing you don't know if you're lying fallow or if you'll never write again.

     - Norman Mailer