Quotes about Writing

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing...Or else something else to write about.

You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I saw to it myself.' Taking his egg, 'On the contrary,' Fanning answered, 'I'd be the first to rejoice. If people write, it means they exist; and all I ask is to be able to pretend that the world doesn't exist.

If a man write little, he had need have a great memory."[12]

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.