Writing Quotes“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” E B White
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.” HG Wells “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ” Benjamin Disraeli "Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!” Dave Barry “The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.” Alan Dean Foster “I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” Nikki Giovanbi "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” Jack Kerouac “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” F. Scott Fitzgerald “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” Stephen King “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” Thomas Jefferson “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.” Mark Twain "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance." Alexander Pope “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene "You must write every single day of your life…You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads….may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world." Ray Bradbury “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” William Faulkner “The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.” E.B. White “Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.” William Strunk Jr. "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.” George Orwell |
Thinking Quotes"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." AA Milne
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it." Albert Einstein "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." George S. Patton "I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art." Andre Dubus III "The creative adult is the child who has survived." Ursula K Leguin "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" Leonardo Da Vinci |
Reading Quotes"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." William Styron
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting." Aldous Huxley "Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms." Angela Carter "Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." Joyce Carol Oates Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs." H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |