Action Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;…

— Samuel Johnson

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

— Henry David Thoreau

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers…

— William Saroyan

“What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing…

— Troy Hicks

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of…

— George Henry Lewes