Writing Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

— T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

— T. S. Eliot

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not,…

— T. S. Eliot

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his…

— T. S. Eliot

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

— T. S. Eliot

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave…

— T. S. Eliot

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

— T. S. Eliot

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to…

— T. S. Eliot

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,…

— T. S. Eliot

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…

— T. S. Eliot