Quotes about Writing

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending out a love letter to the world.

Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion.

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

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.