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True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Author: Alexander Pope, ‘An Essay on Criticism’
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Author: Ana?s Nin
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Author: Andr? Gide
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Author: Anton Chekhov
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You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
Author: Arthur Polotnik
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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts…
Author: Betsy Ca?as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.
Author: Burton Rascoe
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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.
Author: C. Astrid Weber
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The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.
Author: C. Astrid Weber
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If I’m trying to sleep, the ideas won’t stop. If I’m trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
Author: Carrie Latet
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Author: Charles Peguy
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I am a man, and alive…. For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
Author: D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938
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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies….
Author: Denise Levertov, ‘A Walk through the Notebooks’
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
Author: Don Marquis
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Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Author: Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
Author: E.L. Doctorow
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Author: Elias Canetti
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