Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Nine More #Writing Related #Quotes

 

“A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”

~Simone de Beauvoir

 

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“You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.”

~J. K. Rowling

 

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“Write your story as it needs to be written. Tell it as best you can.”
~Chris Gill

 

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“Any form of human creativity is a process of doing it and getting better at it. You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.”

~Margaret Atwood

 

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“Literature is a process of producing beautiful lies that tell more truth than any facts.”
~Julian Barnes

 

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“Look, writing books isn’t that hard. All you have to do is build an armored giant out of all your fears and then fight it to the death and melt the metal down to forge a pair of doors locked by doubt and go on a quest to find the key and then sit your ass in the chair and write.”
~Victoria Schwab

 

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"Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful."
~Amy Joy
 

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“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.”
~Ernest Hemingway

 

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“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

~Shereen El Feki

 

2 comments:

Jeanie said...

I couldn't read the ones in black but I really liked the Rowling quote!

Victoria Zigler said...

Jeanie:
Sorry about some of them being in a different colour. I'm not sure why that is, since I didn't play with the colours or anything. I can only assume the colour was changed where they were posted and it kept that when I copied the quotes.