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
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
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
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
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
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
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. —Florence Nightingale More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. —George Ade More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel. —Eleanor Catton More about this quote Tags: emotions writing art gender sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. —Seneca More about this quote Tags: writing poetry good quotations citation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: attention writing art painting observation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email