Writing Quotes

"I'm not trying to represent another person. I'm OK with people recognizing my work as writer and creator. I'm better off suited by being myself." "It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction." "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it." "Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters." "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." "True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Your job is to tell your story." "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Literature is news that stays news."