Writing quotes

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  1. Uninvited Writer profile image77
    Uninvited Writerposted 15 years ago

    What are your favorite writing quotes?

    I just heard this one on Criminal Minds and I think it's perfect:

    Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
            Cyril Connolly
            (1903 - 1974)

  2. Money Glitch profile image68
    Money Glitchposted 15 years ago

    I just heard that one too and I  agree Uninvited Writer, that was is a profound quote.

    I recently read this one in O Magazine...

    "In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." - Junot Diaz (Pultizer Prize in '08).

    1. Uninvited Writer profile image77
      Uninvited Writerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      That one is so true also

  3. rebekahELLE profile image88
    rebekahELLEposted 15 years ago

    this is one from Rilke in a letter to a young poet he was mentoring:

    'go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.  at its source you will find the answer to the questions, whether you must write. accept it, however it sounds to you, without analyzing."

    1. Uninvited Writer profile image77
      Uninvited Writerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      That sounds like a good one to follow when doing Nanowrimo smile

  4. yoshi97 profile image58
    yoshi97posted 15 years ago

    It takes a million nice words to become a published author, but only a few mean ones to become a critique ...

    1. Uninvited Writer profile image77
      Uninvited Writerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      How true big_smile

  5. rebekahELLE profile image88
    rebekahELLEposted 15 years ago

    the book is beautiful, if you ever have a chance to read it, or perhaps you have.

    Letters to a Young Poet and it includes his poetry The Possibility of Being.

    it is a must have for any serious writer, especially creative writing, poetry.

    I found it a number of years ago on the bargain table at barnes & noble!  and to me, it's priceless.

  6. Jeffrey Neal profile image71
    Jeffrey Nealposted 15 years ago

    Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
    -John Adams

    Not solely a writing quote, but one of my favorites anyway.

  7. yoshi97 profile image58
    yoshi97posted 15 years ago

    Here's an interesting one I just thought of ...

    Anyone who can read and write well can never be found to be ignorant ... for surely they are well-educated. smile

 
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