Writing Quotes
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
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
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
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E. L. Doctorow
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis
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
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
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.Delmore Schwartz
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.Samuel McChord Crothers
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
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
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
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.Benjamin Franklin
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.John Steinbeck
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
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
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
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
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
