Some Writing Quotes

I never know beforehand what I’m going to write. There are writers who start writing only when they have the book in their head. Not me. I just follow along, and I don’t know where it’s going to end up. Then I start understanding what I wanted. – Clarice Lispector

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there’ll be no “charge” left. You can’t father children that way. – Ray Bradbury

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. – Edward Abbey

All this discomfort and doubt and frustration in the beginning is just what you have to go through to get to the place where something begins to take shape. – Bill Clegg

It has forever been thus: So long as we write what we think, then all of the other freedoms—all of them—may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage. – Rod Serling

I am a free-lance writer which, as far as I am concerned, is the proudest title a man can have and one of the few professions that can lay claim to true independence. – Isaac Asimov

When it comes time for me to write*, I don’t outline and I don’t do any of that stuff. I just sit down and write. If it’s not honest emotionally then it’s not good, and that’s my only rule. –* Shonda Rhimes

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. – Emily Bronte

Sit down and Write. No distraction. Make time for writing. – Myself.