The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them. - Eugene Ionesco
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. - Chris Abani
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you. - Robert Stone
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. - Walter Mosley
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. - Albert Camus
The right story needs the right telling. - John Green
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. - Anaïs Nin
The same common-sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. - Jean de la Bruyere
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. - Charles de Lint
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. It's incredibly annoying for us scribblers. - Iain M. Banks
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. - Julian Barnes
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living – cook books and detective stories. - Rex Stout
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. - Anthony Trollope
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. - Markus Zusak
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. - Huraki Murakami
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