Writing Quotes

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing
Fiction is the truth inside the lie
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open