Writing Quotes
I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.
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.
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
