Writing Quotes - page 13

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. (Blaise Pascal)

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Ba Jin

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

Lee Kuan Yew

I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

Willem de Kooning

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

Banksy

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Haruki Murakami

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. (Jim Butcher)

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

William O. Douglas

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

James Salter

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

James Salter

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Zane Grey

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things-as opposed to making things up-that did not quite happen.

Geoff Dyer

There's a need to perfect things in a writers' room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It's a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.

Louis C.K.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Colin Powell

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Richard Wagner

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor Adorno

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

Stephen Sondheim

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

George F. Kennan

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Friedrich Schlegel

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

John Constable

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