Words for Writers

I wanted to start everyone’s week of with positive thoughts. Have a great Monday and keep writing!

“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 Charles Benchley

“The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write.” Unknown

“Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.” John O’Hara

“However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” Jean Jacques Rousseau

“I get a fine warm feeling when I’m doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let’s face it, writing is hell.” William Styron

“Success comes before work only in the dictionary.” Anonymous

“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.” Stanley Ellin

“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.” Mark Twain

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money.”

Moliere

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” Rudyard Kipling

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein

Until Next Time…