Writing Quotes
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Writing only leads to more writing.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
Vigorous writing is concise.William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.Edna Ferbe
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.Delmore Schwartz
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.John Milton
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.Richard Harding Davis
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.Ludwig van Beethoven
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.Jessamyn West
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - Like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.John Milton
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.Pliny the Elde
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
Report writing, like motor - Car driving and love - Making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.Pliny The Elde
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.Walt Whitman
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
