Writing Quotes - page 2

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. (Walter Raleigh)
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. View quote
Alice Walker
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. View quote
Laurence Sterne
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. View quote
Poul Anderson
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. View quote
Gloria Steinem
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. (Ernest Hemingway)
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. View quote
Octavia Butler
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. View quote
Margaret Fuller
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. View quote
Leon Uris
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. (Ralph Ellison)
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. View quote
Gene Fowler
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. View quote
Robert Penn Warren