True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

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

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

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

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

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

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Taylor Swift

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
Taylor Swift

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson

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

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca

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

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell