Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends,… — Ferenc Molnar
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with… — Isabel Colegate
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. — Edwin Schlossberg
Writing is thinking on paper. — William Zinsser
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
One has to live a life that creates a writer. — Erno Paasilinna
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Unknown Author
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. — Jack Smith
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't. — Jon Franklin
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. — W. W. Rouse Ball
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all… — Andrea Barrett
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely… — Raymond Chandler
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Clarence Day
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. — William Zinsser
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple. — Tim Ferriss
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does… — Mother Teresa
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories… — Unknown Author
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five. — Paul Harvey
You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is… — Sylvia Plath
We do not write as we want, but as we can. — W. Somerset Maugham
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives… — Zig Ziglar
Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action… — David Ryan
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness… — F. F. Bruce

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