Quotes About Writing

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.