Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In every author, let us distinguish the man from his works"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"To hold a pen is to be at war"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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, Poet

Robert Frost

"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Every man's memory is his private literature"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

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