Quotes about Writing
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
— Charles Colson
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
— William Howard Taft
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
— Peter Kreeft
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God
— Tim LaHaye
For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
— Laurence Sterne
People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.
— David Jeremiah
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
— Anne Lamott
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
— Ellen Glasgow
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
— Francine Rivers