Writing Quotes


Every man usually has something he can do better than anyone else. Usually it is reading his own handwriting.
--Unknown
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters
--Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
--Rod Serling

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
--Juvenal (AD 60-130)

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people--if only they'd stop writing.
--Laura Miller from a salon.com review of the movie Finding Forrester

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
--W. H Auden English-US poet, dramatist, editor

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
--John Steinbeck