Quotes About Writing

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Headline writing is an art form.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.