The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Pat Conroy

Writing

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

Writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anaïs Nin

Writing

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

E.B. White

Writing

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

Writing

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

Writing is the supreme solace.

W. Somerset Maugham

Writing

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Writing

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

Writing

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle

Writing

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Don DeLillo

Writing

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

Mark Twain

Writing

Writing is a way of life.

Sylvia Plath

Writing

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

Write it badly. Write it now. Edit it later.

Unknown

Writing

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Don DeLillo

Writing

Terry Pratchett

Writing

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

Writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anaïs Nin

Writing

One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Writing

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

Writing

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Writing

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff

Writing

Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

Writing

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle

Writing

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Writing

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

David Hare

Writing

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E.L. Doctorow

Writing

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

Writing

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

Writing

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Writing

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Writing

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Writing

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

Writing

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

Meg Cabot

Writing

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

Mark Twain

Writing

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

Writing

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

Writing

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Natalie Goldberg

Writing

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

Writing