Writing Quotes

Well my dear Wavers, the Wave-inatrix has had a grave family emergency and won't be able to post regularly for another few days. Prayers and good thoughts are very much appreciated. A lot of them. So for today, I found some quotes about writing that I really like:


It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
-Robert Benchley

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
-Ray Bradbury

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau:

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
-Jules Renard

Never trust the teller; trust the tale
-D.H. Lawrence

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
-C.S. Lewis

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