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10 Great Quotes About Writing

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My wife and children left me… temporarily. For the next five days, I’ll be a giant can of Fun-Be-Gone® Spray. I’m sequestering myself to finish the second book. It’s at 86,000 words and counting. Parts of it need fleshed out, and parts of it need cut. Last night, I could have worked on it but instead found these ten quotes about writing. That, in and of itself, should tell you all you need to know.

My good friend Adam inspired this idea by sharing Dorothy Parker’s quote that leads us off. Rarely does a day go by when I don’t meet someone who tells me he has a great idea for a book or that she ought to blog.

Yes, I know the feeling.

(If you’re interested, you can get any of these chalkboard quotes as wallpaper for your computer’s desktop by clicking on its image below. A larger, higher-resolution version will open in a new window for you.)

"I hate writing. I love having written." -Dorothy Parker
“I hate writing. I love having written.” -Dorothy Parker
"Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." -Mark Twain
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” -Mark Twain
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” -Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” -Virginia Woolf
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” -Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” -Thomas Mann
“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.” -P.G. Wodehouse
“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.” -P.G. Wodehouse
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
"There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" -David Halberstam
“There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.'” -David Halberstam
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
-Stephen King
"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death." -Steven Pressfield
“The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.” -Steven Pressfield

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