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
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
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
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
—David Sedaris
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