Quotes About Writing

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.