A few quotes about writing

for your consideration.


A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~ Charles Peguy


And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath


Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth


Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it. ~ Jack London


Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White


The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ~ T.S. Eliot


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 Johnson


A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~ Thomas Mann