Re Writing Quotes

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

I just want to write someone’s favorite book

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

Write the book you'd want to read.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

You have to be an outsider to write.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.