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Image of Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
- Stephen King
Collection: About Writing
Image of Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
- Stephen King
Collection: About Writing
Image of Steven Wright
I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
- Steven Wright
Collection: About Writing
Image of Toni Morrison
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: About Writing
Image of Neil Gaiman
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: About Writing
Image of Aldous Huxley
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: About Writing
Image of Anaïs Nin
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
- Anaïs Nin
Collection: About Writing
Image of Anaïs Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Collection: About Writing
Image of Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: About Writing
Image of David McCullough
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
- David McCullough
Collection: About Writing
Image of William S. Burroughs
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: About Writing