It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.... — Jorge Luis Borges 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 ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine 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
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
“If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.” — Nell Stevens Copy Share Image
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image