A Few Great Quotes on the Writing Process

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.  ~Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

The artist's only responsibility is his art.  He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate:  The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.  ~Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958

"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay." Mark Twain

     Writers aren't exactly people.... they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

  

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ Ben Franklin

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain

What quotes inspire your writing?