24 Quotes On Writing For Your Writer Soul
Writing is its own reward.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Agatha Christie
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. - Stephen King
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury
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There always has to be a lapse of time after the accomplishment of a piece of creative work before you can in any way evaluate it. - Agatha Christie
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. - J. K. Rowling
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One key to successful writing is not to worry about what others think. Instead, write in a manner that satisfies your inner self. - Robert W Lucas
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. - Rainer Maria Rilke
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. - Albert Camus
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. - Ernest Hemingway
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you’re writing, and aren’t writing particularly well. - Agatha Christie
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow
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Someone out there right now is going to write someone else's favourite book of all time and is currently wondering if the story in their head is worth telling. - Jenny Lawson
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, "Don't try." That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type. - Charles Bukowski
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All great literature are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being. - Kurt Vonnegut
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov
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Writing is its own reward. - Henry Miller
