Famous quotes about writing

1. Writing for bread will soon suffocate my genius and destroy my talent. Nothing strong, nothing great, can come from a profit-seeking pen.

2. I write because I want to express the silent pain deep in my heart with words. ——Bai Xianyong

3. Never pursue writing better than others in terms of form. It doesn't matter if your writing is worse than others, what matters is that you write according to your own characteristics. It is a very clumsy way to write a big novel from the beginning. It is precisely because of this that a lot of language garbage is produced in our country. Learning to write should start with short stories. Almost all the most outstanding writers in Western Europe and our country do this, because short stories use concise words, the materials are easy to arrange reasonably, the plot is clear, and the theme is clear. The greatest wisdom lies in the simplicity of words. Proverbs and folk songs are always brief, but the wisdom and emotion contained in them are enough to write an entire book. ——Gorky

4. Writing for bread will soon suffocate my genius and destroy my talent. Nothing strong, nothing great, can come from a profit-seeking pen. Need and greed may make me write faster, but they cannot make me write better. ——Rousseau

5. Writing is to sit down and judge yourself. ——Ibsen

6. Be willing to read without being pretentious and truthful. As soon as you introduce politics into a literary work, a feeling of abhorrence emerges immediately. Excessive pursuit of elegant writing will eventually lead to both admiration and boredom. ——Stendhal

7. Try to discover the dilutable essence from human character.

8. A person who has never been a poet even once in his life is sad. ——Lamartine

9. A writer will discover what he wants to write in the process of repeatedly reviewing what he has written. ——"Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life"

10. Writing requires a quiet mind.

——Zweig