Writing Quotes
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
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
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
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
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.Ernest Hemingway
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
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
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.Real Live Preache
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
Writing only leads to more writing.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
Vigorous writing is concise.William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.Ivana Trump
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E. L. Doctorow
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.George Eliot
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
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 skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
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
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
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.Catherine Drinker Bowen
