Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. — John Green
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are… — John Green
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how… — John Green
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling… — John Green
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,… — John Green
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… — John Green
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… — John Green
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or… — John Green
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
You don't have to say everything to say something. — Beth Moore
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. — Paracelsus
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself. — John Steinbeck
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All writing comes by the grace of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. — George Earle Buckle
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates
Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice… — James J. Kilpatrick

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