A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. —Elaine Liner More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “writing” Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. —Edward Gibbon More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. —David Sedaris More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. —Edward Gibbon More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. —David Sedaris More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email