“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
~ Philip Roth
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
“We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.”
~ John Updike, WD
“There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.”
~ Doris Lessing
"The first draft of anything is shit."
~ Ernest Hemingway
"Always be a poet, even in prose."
~ Charles Baudelaire
"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five of six. Most people don't see any."
~ Orson Scott
What are your favorite quotes about writing?
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