Writing Quotes
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.James Joyce
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
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
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
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
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.Delmore Schwartz
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
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 grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
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
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
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Vigorous writing is concise.William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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
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
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
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
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
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
Learn as much by writing as by reading.Lord Acton
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
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.Ivana Trump
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
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E. L. Doctorow
Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis
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
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
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
