11/20/09

My Favorite Quotes on Writing

Elie Wiesel: Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Henry David Thoreau: Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.

Sholem Asch: Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Jules Renard: Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.

Jack London: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you've got something to say.

William Shakespeare: If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me.

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