“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Thank are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5
William Shakespeare
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
Flannery O'Connor
“The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.”
Isadora Duncan
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?”
Joan Didion
“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”
Hugh Leonard
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
Anna Quindlen
“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”
Joyce Carol Oates
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
Joan Didion
“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”
J. K. Rowling
“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
John Steinbeck
“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”
Ben Okri
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
Charles Kingsley
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
Isadora Duncan
“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”
Paddy Chayefsky
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert
“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”
Karen Thompson Walker
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
Augusten Burroughs
“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.”
Jodi Picoult
“Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Mark Twain
“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”
Winston Churchill
“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Carl Sandburg