Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"The desire to write grows with writing"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"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, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Writing is the supreme solace"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least"

Horace, Poet

"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

Brendan Behan

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"Words are the small change of thought"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

Matt Groening

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"Remarks are not literature"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

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