Quotes about Writing
Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.
— Jason Fried
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.
— Edith Wharton
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
— Aldous Huxley
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
— Ernest Hemingway
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
— Jonah Hill
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
— Ilaiyaraaja
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
— Candace Bushnell
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
— Beth Moore
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
— Lydia Millet
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
— Fr. Richard Rohr