Writing Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly
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
Learn as much by writing as by reading.Lord Acton
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
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
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
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
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
A writer is a person 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
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.Ivana Trump
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
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 easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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
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
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
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.Brenda Ueland
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
