How to write

The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Writers are the main landmarks of the past. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them. - Samuel Butler

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain. - Lord Byron

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. - Truman Capote

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform. - Horace

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction. - William Faulkner

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. - William Faulkner

They can’t yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. - Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. - Ernest Hemingway

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. - Ernest Hemingway