Quotes About Writing

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

I have always been suspicious of the phrase, the glow of pregnancy , and my suspicions were only confirmed by Lillian's appearance. Instead of a glow, her whole body seemed to become more and more dull, sallow and sickly sweet and vague, like a candle burning out or a line of smudged writing.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

A page of good prose remains invincible.

To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

What they write today you'll eat your chips from tomorrow. Remember that through your tears.

I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.

I don't think you can dial 911 for a literary emergency.

Most writers tend to create characters who are like them – only slightly better looking, taller, younger and more witty

God have mercy on the sinnerWho must write with no dinner,No gravy and no grub,No pewter and no pub,No belly and no bowels,Only consonants and vowels.

One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came up with his pen, a thick black fountain pen. Fountain: it seemed less flowing, less forthcoming than that, in shape more like a bullet or a bomb. ("Novelty")

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