Writing Quote by Dew Platt

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives.…

— John Hagee

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases,…

— Dick Cavett

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and…

— James Thurber

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

— Hilton Als

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

— Nataly Kelly

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an…

— Ernest Hemingway

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you,…

— Mary Jane Ward

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the…

— Charlotte Ritchie

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

“Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness…

— slawomir mrozek