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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
