We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.Writers and WritingQuotations by Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.Writers and WritingQuotations by Virginia Woolf
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.Writers and WritingQuotations by Oscar Wilde
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.Writers and WritingQuotations by Elwyn Brooks White
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.Writers and WritingQuotations by Bill Wheeler
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.Writers and WritingQuotations by Horace Walpole
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.Writers and WritingQuotations by Alice Walker
I love being a writer, what I can’t stand is the paperwork.Writers and WritingQuotations by Peter De Vries
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.Writers and WritingQuotations by Mary Heaton …
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.Writers and WritingQuotations by Voltaire
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.Writers and WritingQuotations by Source Unknown
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.Writers and WritingQuotations by Source Unknown
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.Writers and WritingQuotations by Mark Twain
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.Writers and WritingQuotations by Henry David Thoreau
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.Writers and WritingQuotations by Jonathan Swift
Let’s face it, writing is hell.Writers and WritingQuotations by William Styron
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.Writers and WritingQuotations by Gloria Steinem
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.Writers and WritingQuotations by John Steinbeck
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.Writers and WritingQuotations by John Steinbeck
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.Writers and WritingQuotations by John Steinbeck
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.Writers and WritingQuotations by Susan Sontag
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.Writers and WritingQuotations by Philippe Sollers
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.Writers and WritingQuotations by Nancy Banks Smith
What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.Writers and WritingQuotations by Logan Pearsall Smith
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.Writers and WritingQuotations by Dr. Walter Smith
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.Writers and WritingQuotations by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.Writers and WritingQuotations by Georges Simenon
Easy writings curse is hard reading.Writers and WritingQuotations by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.Writers and WritingQuotations by George Bernard …
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.Writers and WritingQuotations by George Sand
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.Writers and WritingQuotations by Bertrand Russell
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.Writers and WritingQuotations by Salman Rushdie
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive.Writers and WritingQuotations by Salman Rushdie
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.Writers and WritingQuotations by Leo Rosten
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.Writers and WritingQuotations by Jean Paul Richter
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.Writers and WritingQuotations by Anne Rice
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.Writers and WritingQuotations by Charles Reade
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.Writers and WritingQuotations by Ezra Pound
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?Writers and WritingQuotations by Alexander Pope
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.Writers and WritingQuotations by Alexander Pope
