关于写作的英语名言 写文章创作的名言 Proverbs about Writing

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Proverbs about Writing

1.“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

― Lisa See 2.“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

― Terry Pratchett 3.“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s

good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

4.That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

― Octavia E. Butler 5.“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

― Jodi Picoult 6.“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned

on.”

Louis L’Amour 7.“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his

mind, is written large in his works.”

Virginia Woolf 8.“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts

to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

― Sylvia Plath 9.“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

― Anton Chekhov 10.“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of

excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

―Stephen King 11.Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the

ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

—Orson Scott 12.“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

― Maya Angelou 13.“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own

soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

―Franz Kafka 14.“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.”

―Wally Lamb 15.I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.”

William Carlos Williams 16.“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

―Anne Frank 17.A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

―Richard Bach 18.“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say,

they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”

―R.L. Stine 19.“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except

to keep at it.”

―Chinua Achebe