“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” - Allen GinsbergĢ7. Yet your voice will define you as a writer, and these famous writers have plenty of tips and writing quotes for you when it comes to finding it.įind out which literary luminary is your stylistic soulmate. Now, finding your "voice" is not as simple as entering a nationally-televised competition on NBC ( nyuk nyuk!). “If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” - Dan Poynter It’s the execution that is all important.” - George R.R. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.” - Mo WillemsĢ4. “I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.” - Ursula K. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. “As for ‘Write what you know,’ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” - J.K. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. I start trembling at the risk.” - Susan SontagĢ1. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. “Write what should not be forgotten.” - Isabel AllendeĢ0. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.” - William S. “Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” - Henry David Thoreauġ8. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” - Madeleine L'Engleġ7. “You have to write the book that wants to be written. Be willing to be split open.” - Natalie Goldbergġ6. “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” - George Orwellġ5. “Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.” - Mark Twainġ4. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” - Stephen Kingġ3. “Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. Most people don’t see any.” - Orson Scottġ2. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrisonġ1. Here are the writing quotes to replenish it and, hopefully, remind you that there might be a story idea waiting for you just around the corner of life.ġ0. The well of inspiration, we’re afraid, often does run dry. “One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.” - Mary B. “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” ― Lisa Seeĩ. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” - Samuel JohnsonĨ. “The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.” - Ernest Gainesħ. “I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” - Robert Louis StevensonĦ. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” - William Faulknerĥ. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” - Eudora WeltyĤ. “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” - Annie Proulxģ. “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. The number one piece of advice that most authors have for other authors is to read, read, read.
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