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
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf 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 key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour 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
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. — Roy Blount, Jr 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
“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 wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan 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
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
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In my process, I am constantly moving between writing, performing, and producing art objects. These various practices inform one another. What I… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook 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
The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it) is valuable is precisely why I cant tell you how to do… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think… — Dave Hickey 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
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser 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
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck 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
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional… — Marc Quinn Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world… — Alan Moore 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
“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
