Writing Quotes
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar
Gracián
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing
in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ~Anais Nin
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners'
names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. ~Mignon McLaughlin
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by
persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves.
Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L.
Doctorow
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. ~Robert
Brault
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can
set them free. ~Samuel Johnson
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy
accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it
impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid,
asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links,
they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore
Dreiser
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple
reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ~Charles Caleb
Colton
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~Henry
David Thoreau
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse
buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. ~Jerome Stern
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a
man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~Samuel Johnson
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy
himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a
curious anticlimax. ~Alfred Kazin
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can
imitate. ~Chateaubriand
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work
in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your
satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it
is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being
there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir
Nabakov
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some
place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~Jules Renard
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human
emotions. ~James Michener
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how
potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to
combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language,
trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of
battle. ~John Cheever
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are
slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide
him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ~Samuel Butler
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject
he may. ~Walter Savage Landor
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