Writing Quotes
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
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
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
Vigorous writing is concise.William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
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
Learn as much by writing as by reading.Lord Acton
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
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
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.John Steinbeck
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
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
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
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_
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
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
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
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
