Today will be a few famous writing quotes. Feel free to add to the list below! I hope maybe they will inspire you.
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded Ann Radcliffe
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Edith Wharton
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ~Agatha Christie
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