Writing Quote by George Orwell

“Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away,…

— George Orwell

“[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.”

— Doris Lessing

“That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit…

— Ken MacLeod

“We had to keep explaining things, backtracking and filling gaps. We realised our own conversations had evolved into a kind of shorthand, a tidy,…

— Steven Hall

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the…

— Robert Frost

“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as…

— Will Schwalbe

“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only…

— Anonymous

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

— Charles Dickens

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and…

— Shaun Hick

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers,…

— Lenora Champagne

“Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

— Nicholas Carr