Writing Quotes

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. (Pearl Buck, 1892-1973)

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. (Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856)

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in-shock-proof shit-detector. (Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961)

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy; the others have too high a price. (Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974)

There three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. (William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965)

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. (Alan A. Milne, 1882-1956)

When one says that a writer is fashionable one practically always means that he is admired by people under thirty. (George Orwell, 1903-1950)

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention. (Ezra Pound, 1885-1972)

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck, 1902-1968)

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

I was working on the proof op one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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