Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have. — Charles Bartlett Johnson
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write. — Margaret Atwood
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. — Tina Fey
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this… — Epictetus
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play… — Alan Watts
Love as much as you can from wherever you are. This line is especially good to recall when you feel frightened, crazy, or have taken… — Thaddeus Golas
You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move… — Anthony of Sourozh
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil… — Malala Yousafzai
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way — Robert Solow
Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need… — Melanie Laurent
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake… — Unknown Author
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity… — Fulton J. Sheen
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it… — Aberjhani
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself,… — Steven Pressfield
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow… — Aldous Huxley
Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than… — Martin Luther
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and… — Ernest Hemingway
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly

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