Writing Quotes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Write, Worth, Reading

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

Time, Write, Editor

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway

Nothing, Down, Sit

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Painting

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Study, Lives, Speech

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Dead, Write, Worth

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Through, Write, Cry

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creative, Read, Reading

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sense, Reading, Line

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creative, Reading

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright

Book, Done, Numbers

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
Eminem

Whatever, Playing, Almost

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway

Deep, Night, Learned

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

End, Started, Knew

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Down, Free, Playing

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Off, Talking, Second

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell

Forward, Country, Start

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

May, Enough, Water

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

Character, Living, Create

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix

Words, Keep, Almost

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey

Woman, Reading, Ready

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway

Travel, Mind, Write

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers

Learned, Write, Read

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

Fear, Human, Sometimes

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

Hope, Book, Afraid

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

Moment, Desire, Plan

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Change, Mind

You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

Hands, Private, Ashamed

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

Living, Ideas, Desk

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