I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing. — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“the art of writing changeable code requires the ability to write high-value tests.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not unlike the act of screaming. A constant flow of otherworldly emotions with tempos high and hymns… — Rosca Marx Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: ‘What’s important is not the emotion they’re playing… — John Yorke Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I… — Gerardo Suter Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“But she had to write. And one letter to the Times, she used to say to Miss Brush, cost her more than… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something… — Bashō Matsuo Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
