1,000 Quotes For Writers

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe,

Healing begins where the wound was made.”
― Alice Walker

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of
who you are.”
― Erica Jong

“What art offers is space...a certain breathing room
for the spirit.”
― John Updike
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote

“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real
life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a
well-crafted story.”
― Isaac Babel

“I am who I am and that's who I am.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man,
but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal
could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully,
so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story,
the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what
a man cannot see close?”
― Thomas Hardy,