“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.” — Gabriela Pereira Copy Share Image
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write… — David Ives Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire… — Bible Copy Share Image
I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I… — Eran Creevy Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Owen Zupp is an award-winning writer, published author and commercial pilot with nearly 17,000 hours of flight time. He has flown all… — Owen Zupp Copy Share Image
“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing… No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
![“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing… No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light… The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for…” quote by Dava Sobel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/dava-sobel-29490_writing_john-harrison-could-not-express-himself_340218.jpg)
