Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Literature adds to reality; it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"If you wish to be a writer, write"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"For a creative writer, possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Writing and travel broaden your ass, if not your mind; and I like to write standing up"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them, his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth, they only say you're cynical, and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them!"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought"

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea"

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

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