Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. — Richard Harding Davis
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
If you want to write, keep cats. — Aldous Huxley
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains… — Shirley Jackson
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him.… — Dick Schaap
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P.D. James
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary… — Laura Hillenbrand
The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who… — Tony Robbins
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. — Maynard James Keenan
That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account . . . given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually… — J. Reuben Clark
If we own the story then we can write the ending. — BrenÃ© Brown
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. — Unknown Author
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors. — James Ellis
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. — William Zinsser

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