Writing Quotes - page 3

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. (Anthony Trollope)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. View quote
Paul Desmond
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. View quote
Agatha Christie
Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing. View quote
A. E. Housman
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! View quote
Harrison Birtwistle
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. (James A. Michener)
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. View quote
Enya
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. View quote
John Steinbeck
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. View quote
Herman Wouk
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. View quote
Georges Bizet
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Easy reading is damned hard writing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it. View quote
Robert Orben
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. View quote
Federico Fellini
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons