Writing Quotes
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
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Vigorous writing is concise.William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
Writing only leads to more writing.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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 writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.Delmore Schwartz
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
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
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
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.Ernest Hemingway
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce
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
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
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
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
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
