Quote of the Week #100

"A day will come when the story inside you will want to breathe on its own. That's when you'll start writing."

--Sarah Noffke

Quote of the Week #99

"As a writer you try to listen to what other people aren't saying... and write about the silence."

--N.R. Hart

Quote of the Week #98

"Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas."

-Agatha Christie

Quote of the Week #97

"You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way."

--Patrick Rothfuss

Quote of the Week #96

"I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps."

--Edith Wharton

Quote of the Week #95

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

-Virginia Woolf

Quote of the Week #94

"Writing is just work—there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes—it's still just work."

-Sinclair Lewis

Quote of the Week #93

"I think writing is really a process of communication... It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing."

-Sherley Anne Williams

Quote of the Week #92

"Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone."

-Ursula K. LeGuin

Quote of the Week #91

"Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

— William Faulkner

Quote of the Week #90

"I've always disliked words like 'inspiration.' Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem or an engineer about an engineering problem."

-Doris Lessing

Quote of the Week #89

"Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted."

-Jules Renard

Quote of the Week #88

"Good writing is essentially rewriting."

-Roald Dahl

Quote of the Week #87

"If you wish to be a writer, write."

-Epictetus

Quote of the Week #86

"Writing is a struggle against silence."

-Carlos Fuentes

Quote of the Week #85

"I learned to write by writing."

-Neil Gaiman

Quote of the Week #84

"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."

-Howard Nemerov

Quote of the Week #83

"You fail only if you stop writing."

-Ray Bradbury

Quote of the Week #82

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

-Anais Nin

Quote of the Week #81

"A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood."

-Sigmund Freud