quotes / writing
Looking for a quote about writing
From writers, about writing. Most are practical, not pretty.
- 'The first draft of anything is shit.' — Ernest Hemingway ——
- 'Write drunk, edit sober.' — attributed to Hemingway, probably wrongly —Still useful.
- 'I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.' — Anne Frank Diary—
- 'There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.' — Hemingway, attributed —Disputed but earned.
- 'You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.' — Jodi Picoult ——
- 'A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.' — Thomas Mann ——
- 'Write what should not be forgotten.' — Isabel Allende ——
- 'Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.' — Anton Chekhov —Show, don't tell.
- 'Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about.' — Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones—
- 'You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.' — F. Scott Fitzgerald ——