Writing Quotes

"There are no rules. Do whatever you have to do to get the end of the thing you're writing." - Neil Gaiman

"Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses." - Natalie Goldberg

"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough..." - Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

"Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page." - Stephen King, On Writing

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing." - E. L. Doctorow

"Substitute 'damn' 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

"Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov

"If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else." - Natalie Goldberg

"But it isn't easy," said Pooh. "Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you." - A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner