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  • "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
    By: Ray Bradbury
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  • "There''s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
    By: Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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  • "Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace"
    By: William Safire
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  • "Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone"
    By: John Updike
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  • "There are three rules for writing a novel; Unfortunately, no one knows what they are"
    By: William Somerset Maugham
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  • "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance"
    By: Alexander Pope
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  • "Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished"
    By: William Wordsworth
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  • "If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don''t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves"
    By: Lillian Hellman
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  • "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish"
    By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • "The waste basket is the writer''s best friend"
    By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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  • "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way"
    By: Ernest Hemingway
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  • "Everywhere I go, I''m asked if the universities stifle writers; My opinion is that they don''t stifle enough of them"
    By: Flannery O'Connor
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  • "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure"
    By: Oliver Herford
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  • "If you can''t annoy somebody, there''s little point in writing"
    By: Kingsley Amis
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  • "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money"
    By: Samuel Johnson
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  • "Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it''s so hurtful to think about writing."
    By: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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