10 Quotes About Writing That Every Writer Should Know

#4: “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” -Stephen King

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Here are ten (10) quotes about writing that can benefit any writer.

Obviously, these nuggets of wisdom don’t constitute all that can be known about writing, but if you can master these principles, it will set you apart from most of your fellow writers today.

• “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader — not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”― E. L. Doctorow
• “Good writing is like a windowpane.”― George Orwell
• “In good writing, words become one with things.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” — Stephen King
• “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”― G.K. Chesterton
• “When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.”― Kurt Vonnegut
• “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”― Stephen King
• “Not a wasted word. This…