Famous Quotes
490 Quotations with Writing.
- 241. R. S. White: Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speakin ...
- 242. Natalie Goldberg: We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth ...
- 243. Jean Cocteau: What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in suc ...
- 244. James Thurber: When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transp ...
- 245. Isaac Asimov: When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I g ...
- 246. John Adams: When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose ...
- 247. Ernest Hemingway: When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters ...
- 248. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song ...
- 249. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, plant ...
- 250. Katherine Mansfield: Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that ...
- 251. William Zinsser: Writing is thinking on paper.
- 252. Blaise Cendrars Sauser: Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your ...
- 253. Baybars Tek Omer: Writing a book is just like entering into a wild jungle and coming home with fre ...
- 254. Don Marquis: Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and ...
- 255. John Irving: Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for ...
- 256. Janet Frame: Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border t ...
- 257. Lucy Ellman: Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have ...
- 258. Elvis Costello: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thi ...
- 259. Ernest Hemingway: Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standin ...
- 260. Norman Mailer: Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.