Writing Quotes
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.Ernest Hemingway
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
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
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
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
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
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
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
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
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.Sir Francis Bacon
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
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
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
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.Ivana Trump
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
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
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
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
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
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E. L. Doctorow
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
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
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
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
