Quotes About Writing

Don't make a story go stale by telling it to all your friends before your write it.

I was surprised to find myself in tears. Because these women had trusted me to help as a writer, I began to see a way of bringing together two things - writing and activism - that until then had torn me apart in everyday life.

writing, which is solitary, is fine company for organizing, which is communal. It just took me a while to discover that both can happen wherever you are.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good." Somerset Maugham.

For me,the Bild-Dichtung[image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

Andre verschlafen ihren Rausch, Meiner steht auf dem Papiere.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Don't have stories; have sentences.

to train write their stories and read them to the group.

Book ink is blood-drops of author-heart.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

They, who write ill, and they, who ne'er durst write, Turn critics, out of mere revenge and spite: A playhouse gives them fame; and up there starts, From a mean fifth-rate wit, a man of parts... Our author fears those critics as his fate; And those he fears, by consequence must hate... Howe'er, the poet's safe enough to day, They cannot censure an unfinished play...

Nothing says high school English paper quite like Times New Roman.

Word by word the big books are made.

Bad grammar makes me [sic].

Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

An historian is an unsuccessful novelist.

All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.

I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.