Quotes on writing

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I was reading quotes on writing, seeking inspiration to blog here and at Mad Genius Club, and I found I just had to share a few with you guys:

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.  — Moliere

  For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.  Ernest Hemingway

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. — Anonymous

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it … it would have been much better.  Anonymous

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth… But amusing? Never.  Anonymous

Hard writing makes easy reading.   Anonymous

I particularly love the top one.  And it is SO true…  Though the one before last, well…

  

One thought on “Quotes on writing”

  1. Most people write because they have to?

    Goes for me, I’d rather do than write about doers, and started writing only when I was past forty and still kept wasting way too much time making up stories in my mind (and it had become obvious that I probably would not be doing anything really interesting, maybe like getting to study the geological history of Antarctica, or even better, the moon, in this lifetime ). Would be nice to be able to get some money for it, but if not – well, it seems I feel a lot better if I write them down than if I don’t.

    It would also be nice if I could talk about my stories with some people. A published writer with at least a few fans presumably gets the chance to do that. But unless you write well enough that people actually want to read the stuff it gets problematical, an adult prattling about the imagined adventures of her imagined characters is rarely received well (so since I’d prefer to keep my friends I have never tried to do that:)).

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