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
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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. —Colleen Wainwright More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. —Carol Burnett More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. —Bobby Knight More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it. —Alison Headley More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email