Quotes About Writing

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.