Quotes About Writing

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."… I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

Because you believe, even though you'll deny it, that writing has some kind of magical power. And you're probably crazy enough to make your fiction come true somehow.

Ningún escritor es libre de renunciar a su momento político, pero la literatura refleja la política, no influye en ella, una distinción importante.

His writing is odd but poetic, a tumbling scree of half-built phrases and hiccuping grammar, vividly redolent of his own chaotic life.

increased legibility of his handwriting only serves to reveal the inadequacy of his ability to spell

I write to say what I cannot speak

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

There wasn't time to draw up new documents.

Sam writes in her funny, fascinating memoir, Not By Accident.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

And when he dreams he does not want to write, he does not have the power to dream he wants to write; and when he dreams he wants to write, he does not have the power to dream he does not want to write.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.