Your Favorite Quotes About Writing

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“Writing also makes you process memories in a different way. You have one idea and then remember another. It’s like each one is a cow in a field, and you have to round them all up.” – Michael J. Fox

Last week I posted my favorite quotes about writing. This week, I’m sharing the fantastic quotes shared in the comments. Each quote is posted along with the link to the thoughtful contributor (and their blog) that submitted it.

Thank you all for sharing this amazing wisdom!

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth

Contributed by Dana at Regular Girl Devos

“When in doubt, write.” – Mark Twain

Contributed by Jane Fritz from Robby Robin’s Journey

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank

Contributed by Endless Weekend

“Write what you know.” – Mark Twain

Contributed by Brad Borlund

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” – Joan Didion

Contributed from Brian from Writing from the Heart with Brian

“” I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine … before she realizes she’s reading.” – Maya Angelou

Contributed by Rebecca Cuningham from Fake Flamenco

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

Contributed by Kym Gordon Moore from From Behind the Pen

“Habitual handwriting opens up space for generating good ideas, organising them on the page and constructing nuanced vocabulary choices.” – Dr. Hetty Roessingh, professor emerita University of Calgary

Contributed by Edward Ortiz from Thoughts about leadership, history, and more

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58 thoughts on “Your Favorite Quotes About Writing”

  13. I particularly love Mark Twain’s quote, “When in doubt, write.” It is so direct and to the point, it reminds me of the Nike slogan, “Just do it.” Here is one of my fave writer quotes: “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” ~Anaïs Nin

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  16. I love what you did with all the quotes, Wynne. Pretty amazing! All the quotes are excellent, and thank you for including my contribution. Like I said in last my post, you can’t beat the level of collaboration this WP community can achieve.

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  18. This is perhaps one of my favorite parts of reading. Sure, I love it when the author shows us what’s happening by painting a picture, but what I especially love is how someone else’s words trigger my own memories and experiences.

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