Writing Quotations Help!

[ladyseishou]

I hope to post an inspirational quotation for each day of November like we had last year (here's an example). So I would like to ask for your help Nano Writer!

Please respond to this post and tell me your favorite writing quotations. One or several, I need them all! Thanks!

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[yifu]

A few from me:

"It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them."
-Julian Barnes

"You might be writing someone’s favorite book." - Shonna Slayton

"Writing is tricky thing, because everyone assumes that the act of writing to move and amuse people with words is somehow only slightly more difficult than the act of writing to place words into vaguely coherent sentences. This is like saying that playing professional baseball is only slightly more difficult than hitting a beach ball with a stick." - John Scalzi

"If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money." - Andrei Tarkovsky

"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.'"
- Umberto Eco

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." - E.L. Doctorow

"The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them." - Anais Nin

"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison

"And she had no plot. Or did not recognise those plots she had." - A.S. Byatt, Still Life

[ladyseishou]

Thanks! These are great!