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Creative Writing Quotes

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

― W. Somerset Maugham


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

― Maya Angelou


“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

― Madeleine L’Engle


“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

― Stephen King


“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

― Mark Twain


“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”

― Lloyd Alexander


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

― Jack Kerouac


“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

― Winston S. Churchill


“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

― Virginia Woolf


“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

― Isaac Asimov


“The first draft of anything is shit.”

― Ernest Hemingway


“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

― Flannery O’Connor


“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

― Charles Baudelaire


“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

― Joss Whedon


“I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

― Mark Twain