Attention Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

— August Wilson

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so…

— Terry Eagleton

“The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

— Sophy Burnham

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

— Red Barber

“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

“Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you’ve been…

— Michael Erard

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink,…

— Anonymous

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them up one…

— Bonnie Friedman