“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King
“Write what should not be forgotten.” – Isabel Allende
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult
“Writing is the painting of the voice.” – Voltaire
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” – E.L. Doctorow
“Writing is both a mask and an unveiling.” – E.B. White
“The more you read, the more you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.” – Pat Conroy
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means.” – Joan Didion
“There is no such thing as a perfect piece of writing, only a perfect process.” – Elizabeth Gilbert BEST MRS BIRLING QUOTES
“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” – Mark Twain
“Writing is an act of self-discovery.” – Natalie Goldberg
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
“Writing is the incarnation of thought.” – Fernando Pessoa
“You must write every single day of your life.” – Ray Bradbury
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” – Robert Cormier
“Writing is thinking on paper.” – William Zinsser
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” – Joseph Heller
“Writing is an act of bravery.” – Erica Jong
“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis
“The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.” – Isabel Allende
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” – Isaac Asimov
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost