Writing Quotes

"Immature poets imitate mature poets steal" "Although every great writer will recognized as unique, the fact is that the art of literature is not just an individual voice but a relationship between writer and reader" "I have nothing to declare except my genius." "What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books" "If you don't like someone's story, write your own " "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty" "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition." "Write hard and clear about what hurts" "The first draft of anything is shit" "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book"