Quotes

Quotes on the Art and Craft of Writing.

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Walter Wellesley Smith

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” – Ellmore Leonard

“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” – Gene Fowler

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” Isaac Asimov

“Words are like phlegm; expectorate them.” – Alexander Jablokov, ReaderCon 23

– Chuck Wendig