Whoever said that writing was
easy clearly never wrote anything worthwhile. Whenever I get low about my lack
of success, I remember that the greats weren’t always great. They too papered
their walls with rejection slips. Check out the quotes below, said by those who
lived, breathed and dreamt writing! So have a laugh and know that you are in
good company.
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no
talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too
famous.”- Robert Benchley
“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out
in the back yard and shot it.”- Truman
Capote
“There is nothing to writing. All you do
is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”- Ernest
Hemingway
“Fiction
is the truth inside the lie.”- Stephen King
“Any
writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation
that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine
discontent.”- Harper Lee
“If there's a
book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write
it.”- Toni Morrison
"People without hope do not
write novels. Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair
often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always highly irritated by people who
imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into
reality and it's very shocking to the system."- Flannery O'Connor
“Writing
a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful
illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by
some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”- George Orwell
“I
hate writing, I love having written.”- Dorothy Parker
“Writers are made, not born. To be exact, writers are self-made.” - Ayn
Rand
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us
how hard it is to be God.”- Sidney
Sheldon
“Write only if you cannot
live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”- Elie Wiesel