Writing Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Writing:
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, 1900.
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.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~ Francis Bacon.
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head.
~ From the movie Finding Forrester.
Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper as their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers, artists, and singers - all the same urges with differing transportation.
~ Graycie Harmon.
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.
Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.
~ Laurie Wordholt.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
~ George Orwell, Why I Write, 1947.
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.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
~ Sholem Asch.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957.
Writing is a product of silence.
~ Carrie Latet.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
~ E.L. Doctorow.
Writing is a struggle against silence.
~ Carlos Fuentes.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
~ Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895.
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
~ E.B. White.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
~ Gene Fowler.
Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.
~ Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
~ Franz Kafka.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
~ G.K. Chesterton.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
~ Ray Bradbury.
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
~ Doris Lessing.
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
~ Arthur Polotnik.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
~ Author Unknown, Often misattributed to Samuel Johnson.
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.
~ David Duchovny.
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