If you aren’t following us on Twitter, you might not know that every working day we post a “quote of the day” on writing. These are selected as quotes that inspire us, or are sometimes just entertaining. I also find that this is quite a fun exercise to find less common and more interesting quotes.
So, here are our favourite quotes that we’ve come across:
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
Natalie Goldberg
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anaïs Nin
Editing might be a bloody trade, but knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
Blake Morrison
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Patricia Fuller
A good editor doesn’t rewrite words, she rewires synapses.
S. Kelley Harrell
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Steve Almond
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