10 Must-Read Quotes About Writing | Writing For A Living

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We're all writers here.. in some form or other. Some are perhaps better or more experienced at it than others.. but the thing is, the more you work at something, the better you become because, well, practice. So here's to us all - and our continued writing success! Cheers!!

Quotes For Writers.. By Writers.. About Writing

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1. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.  ~Ernest Hemingway~

2. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.  ~Virginia Woolf(A Room of One's Own)~

3. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.  ~Anaïs Nin~

4. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.  ~Jack Kerouac(The Dharma Bums)~

5. You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.  ~Saul Bellow~

6. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.  ~Robert Frost~

7. There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.  ~Beatrix Potter~

8. Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov~

9. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.  ~Henry David Thoreau~

10. Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.  ~Louis L'Amour~

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I hope you enjoyed my collection of quotes about writing! Do you have a favourite quote about writing? C'mon, you must have at least one LOL.. ♡