Are you one of those people who likes to collect quotes? I am. Here are some of my favorite quotes about writing and creativity. See which of these resonate with you the most. Feel free to add your own in the comment section or email me your favorites and I’ll include them in my next favorite quotes about writing and creativity post.
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
–Barbara Kingsolver
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
— Gloria Steinem
There is only one thing written for its own sake, and that is a shopping list; everything else we write in order to say something to somebody.
—Umberto Eco
It is to the silence you should listen
the silence behind invocations, allusions
the silence of rhetoric . . .
What I have written
I have written between the lines.
–Gunnar Ekelof
Every person is born into life as a blank page- and every person leaves life as a full book. Our lives are our story, and our story is our life.
–Christina Baldwin
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
–Carson McCullers
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
–Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
–Albert Einstein
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
–Henry David Thoreau
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