Writing Quotes
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
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
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
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_
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
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
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
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
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.Katherine D. Ortega
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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
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
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
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
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
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
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.Ernest Hemingway
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
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
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
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
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
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 hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
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
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
