Art Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

— Lin Yutang

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

I must never write when I do not want to write.

— Langston Hughes

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“You Can Only Write By Writing”

— Eleazer Ikekwe

Anyone who can not write should.

— Harlan Ellison

“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.”

— Sarah Gerdes

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

— Flannery O'Connor

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't,…

— Anthony Kiedis