Writing Quotes I Love

Apparently, I should be doing "better" things like tackling my mountain of homework so instead of writing today, I shall instead post other people's quotes on writing. Yay.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.  ~Ray Bradbury. 

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin. 

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L. Doctorow

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.  ~Richard Wright,American Hunger, 1977

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.  ~Vladimir Nabakov

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.  ~William Wordsworth

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.  ~Terri Guillemets

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air.  All I must do is find it, and copy it.  ~Jules Renard, "Diary," February 1895

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.  ~Karl Kraus

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.  But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.  ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842 That's why I usually have a pen in my pocket...and a clean hand to write on.

Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"  

Be obscure clearly.  ~E.B. White 

Every writer I know has trouble writing.  ~Joseph Heller

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.  ~Lord Byron

Write your first draft with your heart.  Re-write with your head.  ~From the movieFinding Forrester

I could go on and on but I'm not sure you enjoy these as much as I do.