Quotations: WritingA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
| For forty-odd years in this noble profession I've harbored a guilt and my conscience is smitten. So here is my slightly embarrassed confession -- I don't like to write, but I love to have written. (Michael Kanin) | | Send as a greeting card |  |
| If you're not scared, you're not writing.... This is page fright: a fear of confronting the blank page. (Ralph Keyes) | | Send as a greeting card | |
| Keep writing; the act of writing itself is the key. It should become the central focus, safe haven, and metaphor of your life. Remember, the difference between writers and people who write is the difference between bullfighters and bullshitters. (Richard Krevolin) | | Send as a greeting card | |
| An author ought to write for youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards. (Scott Fitzgerald) | | Send as a greeting card | |
| From Homer invoking the Muse down to Herrick prosaically noting that every day is not good for verses -- from the romantic talking of his 'genius' to Emerson declaring that there was a great deal of inspiration in a chest of good tea -- they all unequivocally declare that the words ... will not come for the asking, are rare and wooed with hard labour. (C S Lewis) | | Send as a greeting card | |
| The writer’s way is rough and lonely and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say cleaning ferryboats? (Dorothy Parker) | | Send as a greeting card | |
| The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. (Mary Heaton Vorse) | | Send as a greeting card | |
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