Your manuscript is both good a...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson ~

You write to communicate to th...

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.  And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

~Arthur Polotnik~

You must stay drunk on writing...

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

~Ray Bradbury~

You could compile the worst bo...

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

~G.K. Chesterton~

Writing, I think, is not apart...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957~

Writing is utter solitude, the...

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

~Franz Kafka~

Writing is my time machine, ta...

Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.

~Jeb Dickerson, ~

Writing is easy: All you...

Writing is easy:  All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

~Gene Fowler~

Writing is both mask and unvei...

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

~E.B. White~

Writing is a way of talking wi...

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

~Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895~

Writing is a struggle against ...

Writing is a struggle against silence.

~Carlos Fuentes~

Writing is a socially acceptab...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

~E.L. Doctorow~

Writing is a product of silenc...

Writing is a product of silence.

~Carrie Latet~

Writing comes more easily if y...

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

~Sholem Asch~

Writing became such a process ...

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say.

~Sharon O'Brien~

Writers seldom write the thing...

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

~Elbert Hubbard~

Writers are not just people wh...

Writers are not just people who sit down and write.  They hazard themselves.  Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

~E.L. Doctorow~

Writers are just people who ha...

Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper as their preferred method of transport.  Same with dancers, artists, and singers - all the same urges with differing transportation.

~Graycie Harmon~

Writer's block is a disease fo...

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

~Terri Guillemets~

Write your first draft with yo...

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head.

~From the movie Finding Forrester~