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C. S. Lewis

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 h

Edith Wharton

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.

Rhys Alexander

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It???s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Writing only leads to more writing.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

S. O'Brien

Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery.

James Burke

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

Steven Wright

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Stanislaw Lec

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Steven Wright

I've writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Marsha Norman

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Douglas Engelbart

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Steven Wright

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now Ijust have to fill in the rest.

John Gregory Dunne

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Isabel Colegate

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

Ernest Hemingway

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Real Live Preacher

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

Thomas a Kempis

Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

S. G. Tallentyre

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: _Essay on Poetry._

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Etty Hillesum

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Russell Baker

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Jim Davis

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Sir Winston Churchill

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the mons

Truman Capote

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Steven Wright

My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises the baby makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

John LeCarre

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Richard Harding Davis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Lillian Hellman

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.

Jessamyn West

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Brenda Ueland

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

John Milton

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Henry David Thoreau

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

Edna Ferber

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.

Rhys Alexander

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It???s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.

Anita Brookner

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Chinese Proverb

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Pliny the Elder

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

George Frost Kennan

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

If I had been using Windoze, I'd still be writing this.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

God is love, but get it in writing.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

'I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.' - Steven Wright

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you???re doing, or it comes out flat. You can???t fake your way through this.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

'Tis hard to tell if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. - Alexander Pope

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

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.

...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the i

"Creative writing is fine, so long as it remains on topic." - T. Ellis

"Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting."

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

"No honey, I'm not BBSing again - I'm writing a letter to my mother."

"True ease from writing comes from art, not chance." -- Pope

"I like writing artificially intelligent programs," Tom lisped.

"Bother," said Pooh, as he finished writing the @FN@ Virus

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." - S. Wright