Writing Like Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no…
— Margaret Atwood
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want…
— Natalie Goldberg
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My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one…
— Elizabeth Kim
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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
— Sigmund Freud
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The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most…
— Judith Barrington
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Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
— Susan Sontag
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You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this…
— Terry Brooks
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the…
— A. E. Hotchner
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Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.
— Maxwell Perkins
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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be…
— Marguerite Duras
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do…
— Jose Saramago
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Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that…
— Julia Glass
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
— Octavia E. Butler
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Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
— Gillian Cross
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During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on…
— George Stephen
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Writing. like. this. doesnt. make. your. point. any. stronger. It. makes. it. look. like. your. computer. has. asthma.
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Writing Like Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Writing Like Quotes as follows: