{"id":279,"date":"2020-11-17T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:18:40","slug":"99-quotes-about-writing-by-the-worlds-greatest-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/99-quotes-about-writing-by-the-worlds-greatest-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"99 Quotes About Writing By The World\u2019s Greatest Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever wondered what advice your favourite author would give to a debut writer? Here are 99 quotes from some of the World\u2019s most successful writers! Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quotes and aphorisms gathered together below range across more than 2,000 years of the practice of the craft. Within these quotes you will find agreement on what constitutes good writerly practice, but you will also find a decent slice of disagreement. One writer plots it all out, right down to the finest details before embarking, while another writer could not begin to work if they knew beyond the next scene. One writer works out meticulous biographical histories of their characters<\/a>, for another writer it is enough to close their eyes and picture their subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these quotes below contradict or dispute each other. That\u2019s deliberate. That\u2019s fine. Many \u2018story gurus\u2019 or \u2018formula writers\u2019 might wish you to believe that their approach to story is the one<\/em>, that they have cracked the secret and if you follow their approach \u2013 and buy their book \u2013 your work will be bestselling. But writing is not like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many ways to arrive at the same destination. If there were one single successful approach then literature would be all the poorer for it. The application of formula to practice tends to make results more formulaic. The resulting work would be samey and bland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are offered below are tools not rules. If a quote strikes a chord with you then think about it, use it. If the quote intuitively offends how you wish to proceed with your work then you are entitled and right to discard it. It is not right for you \u2013 someone has offered you a hammer when you need a spade. Only you will know when you read something and think, \u2018That\u2019s it! That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been looking for.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each writer must collect the twigs to build their own nest and no nest is the same. Don\u2019t feel anxiety because you disagree with Anton Chekov\u2019s approach, or Colette\u2019s approach. What made them Chekov and Colette will not make you into you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rejoice in the venerable writers and quotes below, enjoy, relax and I hope you find some twigs for your nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n

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