Writing Quotes

Tonight I ran across a web site listing quotes about writing, about a hundred in all. These are my favorites:

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~ Ernest Hemingway

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou

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

The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.~ Natalie Goldberg

Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White

The best style is the style you don't notice. ~ Somerset Maugham

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~ Franz Kafka