Writing Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin
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
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.Ernest Hemingway
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
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
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.E. B. White
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
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
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
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
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Gene Fowle
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.Benjamin Franklin
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.Cyril Connolly
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_
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
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
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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
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
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
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
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
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
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 something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.Ivana Trump
