#WriterWednesday: #Quotes About #Writing

Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right.
~Amy Joy

I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.
~Chinua Achebe

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
~Augusten Burroughs

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
~Arthur Plotnik

A writer is a world trapped in a person.
~Victor Hugo

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
~Neil Gaiman

An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
~Irwin Shaw