Writers’ Quotes on Writing – Dozen Number Six

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Writers’ Quotes on Writing – Dozen Number Six

By Deb Gallardo

In this continuing series on quotes from famous authors on the writing life, we’ve seen the inspirational, the humorous, the pithy and the ironic. Enjoy the next set and pass on the fun by Stumbling, Digging and Tweeting this link: (http://www.debgallardo.com/virtuoso/1069/writers-quotes-on-writing-dozen-number-six/)

There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are. ~ Somerset Maugham

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. ~ A. A. Milne

I can’t write five words but that I change seven. ~ Dorothy Parker

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling

There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. ~ Terry Pratchett

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. If all feels hopeless, if that famous ‘inspiration’ will not come, write. If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not – and the odds are against it – go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper – write. ~ J. B. Priestly

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~ Somerset Maugham

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, circa 65 A.D.

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. ~ Santha Rama Rau

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. ~ Jules Renard

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. ~ John Scalzi