I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.” — Adewale Joel 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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically ,… — Gerardo Suter 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
“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 history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
