Writing quotes, quotes about writing

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Oscar Wilde)

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal)

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. (Stephen King)

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. (Honore de Balzac)

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E. L. Doctorow)

The aspiring writer must not merely be persistent, but relentless. If you are persistent and your manuscript is rejected, you send it out again. But if you are relentless, you make ten copies of the rejected manuscript and send them all out simultaneously. (Jacob M. Appel)

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. (Mark Twain)

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. (Winston Churchill)

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