Quotes About Writing

Write down in a secure place the important things you learn from the Spirit. You will find that as you write down precious impressions, often more will come. Also, the knowledge you gain will be available throughout your life. Always, day or night, wherever you are, whatever you are doing, seek to recognize and respond to the direction of the Spirit.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

this book has been written by a certifiably lazy man.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The writer is a kind of tuning-fork for a melody yet to be composed.

There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

So I often saw my father writing under the lamp, scratching his head to find something to write about, even telling her that the handle had come off the kettle, and about Gareth cutting a lump out of the door with my chisel, with pages about Taliesin, of course. There is strange to see a man quiet in his own world, and searching it for jewels to give his queen.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you

We write by the light of every book we've read.

But the difficulty of changing a typescript can also have what seems to be the opposite effect: You let go. You stop caring about certainty; you stop editing yourself, stop second-guessing yourself, and simply write—mistakes and all.

Who is the ingenious inventor of the type-writing machine that opens such a wide field of hope for the cautious caligraphist while it takes from the feeble spellist his only safeguard, illegibility?

There are people who will choose quality communication over quantity, who want to express themselves in a message to another individual in a way that slow writing can encourage, and e-mailing and texting often discourage.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

He'll spend his life in the service of an immense conspiracy, launched from the Valley of Heart's Delight, to take over the human brain and change it more than anything since writing.

People, God love 'em, must write all over beeches. But some people—some fathers—are written all over by trees.

the process of writing is always a healing process because the function of creation is always, always, the alleviation of pain—the writer's, first of all, and then the pain of those who read what she has written. Imagination is compassionate. Writing is a form of making, and making humanizes the world.1

I work to support my habit of writing.

The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...

I hear you don't write any more, he says... Not true, I inform him. You should see the margins of my student papers. Not the same as writing a book though, right? Almost identical, I assure him. Both go largely unread.

The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here