Quotes About Writing

Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo.

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.

Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.

Siempre te ha gustado escribir, no importaba el qué, escribir y ya está; es el gesto lo que cuenta, gesto de poeta, gesto de rey, soberano albedrío sobre las pobres vocales y consonantes que aparecena tus órdenes y se ponen en fila, march en, alienación derech, rompan filas.

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

The quipu is significant because it dispels the notion that mathematics flourishes only after a civilization has developed writing; however, societies can reach advanced states without ever having developed written records.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Writing is the enjoyable part of writing. It's all the rest that drives you mad.

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

Unless you must write a book, you mustn't.

A teacher can't teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.

A book is a journey of a thousand paragraphs. You begin with the first one.

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher about her view of writing. The little girl said, Good writing requires a good vocabulary. A good writer requires a good conduct in many ways.

The ink of any pen has no control of its writing. If you are using a pencil, don't use the eraser. It is not made for writing.

There is no prestige in writing if the purpose of writing is not for the weal of the people.

The essence of writing is enkindled by the heart and soul of the thinker.

The purpose of writing is not to commend the flaws and imperfections in life. We do not write to encourage enmity or to instigate evil. We want to promote writing not as self-expression, but to minimize life's imperfections.

The words that we put into writing are the very same words that come out from our hearts that speak.

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

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.