Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

Dorothy Parker

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

E.M. Forster

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Edward Albee

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Elie Wiesel

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Julia Quinn

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Ellen DeGeneres

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

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