Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
– Amy Hempel
Category: Quotable
Quotable 205
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 204
No matter how many people like a piece of writing, some of your readers will hate it. If you’re going to let that stop you, you’re doomed.
– Kelly McCullough
Quotable 203
No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think!
– Mike Rich
Quotable 202
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quotable 201
The first step to being creative is to get rid of your own unwritten rules.
– Mary M. Byers
Quotable 200
Read great sentences until you can tell when one isn’t. Read great paragraphs until their rhythms get stuck in your head.
– Lily Rothman
Quotable 199
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
– J. B. Priestley
Quotable 198
The duty of a writer – the revolutionary duty, if you like – is that of writing well.
– Gabriel García Márquez
Quotable 197
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.
– Anais Nin