Writing Quotes – Page 2

As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. —Calvin & Hobbs […]

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell […]

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It […]

“It’s up to the author to intertwine the craft with the creative and find the balance that touches the soul […]

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” […]

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining but the feeling […]

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”—Gustave Flaubert Without […]

“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.” […]

“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.” —P.D. James It’s all better with […]

—30— “A writer is someone who finishes.” —Thomas Farber […]