Quotes for Writing

"I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music."

- Maya Angelou

"Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing."

- Jamaica Kincaid

"If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day."

- Ann Patchett

"Write every day even if it is just a paragraph."

- Michael Connelly

"I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing."

- Ann Patchett

"...Writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish."

- Sandra Cisneros

"The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."

- Stephen King

"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row."

- Ray Bradbury

"Learn to write by writing."

- Ann Patchett