Quotes About Writing

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. Perhaps 'tis only negligence.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, [...] Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down into writing.

Ou escreva algo que valha a pena ler, ou faça algo que valha a pena escrever.

By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.

This flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing had been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way.

Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Hereby,

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing

Si no quieres perderte en el olvido tan pronto como estés muerto, escribe cosas dignas de leerse, o haz cosas dignas de escribirse.

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day. If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading Or do things worth writing.

A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce every day. It's also very good for refining the difference between your point of view and the host's.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.

I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.