Category: Writing Quotes SMS

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing Quotes SMS

The time to begin writing an article

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your…

Writing Quotes SMS

One ought only to write when one

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in…

Writing Quotes SMS

If i dont write to empty my

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.  ~Lord Byron

Writing Quotes SMS

A writer and nothing else a man

A writer and nothing else:  a man alone in a room with the English language,…

Writing Quotes SMS

To withdraw myself from has ever been

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive…

Writing Quotes SMS

Our passions shape our books repose writes

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.  ~Proust, The Past Recaptured,…

Writing Quotes SMS

The difference between the almost right word

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large…

Writing Quotes SMS

I write because im afraid to say

I write because I’m afraid to say some things out loud. ~Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com

Writing Quotes SMS

There are men that will make you

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world,…

Writing Quotes SMS

Loafing is the most productive part of

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer’s life.  ~James Norman HallCUL

Writing Quotes SMS

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. …

Writing Quotes SMS

A prose writer gets tired of writing

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet.  So…

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing is a socially acceptable form of

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L. Doctorow

Writing Quotes SMS

It is the little writer rather than

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote,…

Writing Quotes SMS

What i like in a good author

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he…

Writing Quotes SMS

When i dont make any progress it

When I don’t make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall…

Writing Quotes SMS

I love writing the swirl and swing

I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with…

Writing Quotes SMS

Being an author is being in charge

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.  ~Terri Guillemets

Writing Quotes SMS

No man should ever publish a book

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a…

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing i think is not apart from

Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living. …

Writing Quotes SMS

Was it only by dreaming or writing

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?…

Writing Quotes SMS

One must be drenched in words literally

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones…

Writing Quotes SMS

Be obscure clearly eb white

Be obscure clearly.  ~E.B. White SD

Writing Quotes SMS

A good style should show no signs

A good style should show no signs of effort.  What is written should seem a…

Writing Quotes SMS

I want to write books that unlock

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.  ~John UpdikePL

Writing Quotes SMS

One hates an author thats all author

One hates an author that’s all author.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo", stanza 75; BMC

Writing Quotes SMS

The good writers touch life often mediocre

The good writers touch life often.  The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. …

Writing Quotes SMS

The land of literature is a fairy

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a…

Writing Quotes SMS

You never have to change anything you

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night…

Writing Quotes SMS

Caress your phrase tenderly it will end

Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. ~Anatole France

Writing Quotes SMS

Its not plagiarism im recycling words

It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. …

Writing Quotes SMS

The best time for planning a book

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.  ~Agatha ChristieLCE

Writing Quotes SMS

The most beautiful things are those that

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.  ~André Gide, Journals,…

Writing Quotes SMS

Write down the thoughts of moment those

Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the…

Writing Quotes SMS

It is necessary to write if the

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How…

Writing Quotes SMS

Easy reading is damn hard writing nathaniel

Easy reading is damn hard writing.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing Quotes SMS

Every writer i know has trouble writing

Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller

Writing Quotes SMS

You write to communicate the hearts and

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. …

Writing Quotes SMS

The road to hell is paved with

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.  ~Stephen King

Writing Quotes SMS

Dancing in all its forms cannot be

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;…

Writing Quotes SMS

The writer writes in order to teach

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the…

Writing Quotes SMS

Proofread carefully to see if you any

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.  ~Author Unknown

Writing Quotes SMS

The first goal of writing is to

The first goal of writing is to have one’s words read successfully.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Writing Quotes SMS

Novelists fashioning nets to sustain and support

Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the…

Writing Quotes SMS

Every word born of an inner necessity

Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.  ~Etty…

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing is a struggle against silence carlos

Writing is a struggle against silence.  ~Carlos Fuentes

Writing Quotes SMS

Metaphors have a way of holding the

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.  ~Orson Scott…

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing is a product of silence carrie

Writing is a product of silence.  ~Carrie Latet

Writing Quotes SMS

Having imagination it takes you an hour

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were…

Writing Quotes SMS

A synonym is a word you use

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. ~Baltasar…

Writing Quotes SMS

If my doctor told me i had

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. …

Writing Quotes SMS

The maker of a sentence launches out

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into…

Writing Quotes SMS

I try to leave out the parts

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.  ~Elmore Leonard

Writing Quotes SMS

An original writer is not one who

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. …

Writing Quotes SMS

No author dislikes to be edited as

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. …

Writing Quotes SMS

The role of a writer is not

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but…

Writing Quotes SMS

We write to remember our nows later

We write to remember our nows later. ~Terri Guillemets

Writing Quotes SMS

No one means all he says and

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for…

Writing Quotes SMS

It seems to me that those songs

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing…

Writing Quotes SMS

For me a page of good prose

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the…

Writing Quotes SMS

Books want to be born i never

Books want to be born: I never make them.  They come to me and insist…

Writing Quotes SMS

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.  ~Hannah Arendt

Writing Quotes SMS

A writer is somebody for whom writing

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other…

Writing Quotes SMS

I hate writing love having written dorothy

I hate writing, I love having written.  ~Dorothy Parker, may not be exact wordingGloria Steinem…

Writing Quotes SMS

The process of writing has something infinite

The process of writing has something infinite about it.  Even though it is interrupted each…

Writing Quotes SMS

My language is the common prostitute that

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.  ~Karl KrausCUL

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing is both mask and unveiling eb

Writing is both mask and unveiling.  ~E.B. WhitePL

Writing Quotes SMS

The best style is the you dont

The best style is the style you don’t notice.  ~Somerset MaughamPL

Writing Quotes SMS

Sit down and put down everything that

Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a…

Writing Quotes SMS

Words so innocent and powerless as

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how…

Writing Quotes SMS

Dont be too harsh to these poems

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed.  I always think typescript lends…

Writing Quotes SMS

Ink on paper is as beautiful to

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes,…

Writing Quotes SMS

I asked ring lardner the other day

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he…

Writing Quotes SMS

Writing comes more easily if you have

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.  ~Sholem Asch

Writing Quotes SMS

Substitute 34damn34 every time youre inclined to

Substitute "damn" every time you’re inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and…

Writing Quotes SMS

Write your first draft with heart re write

Write your first draft with your heart.  Re-write with your head.  ~From the movie Finding…

Writing Quotes SMS

The pages are still blank but there

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being…

Writing Quotes SMS

Let me walk through the fields of

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and…

Writing Quotes SMS

Drama instead of telling us the whole

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in…

Writing Quotes SMS

All my best thoughts were stolen by

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonRDB; PMB

Writing Quotes SMS

Publication is the auction of mind

Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man.  ~Emily DickinsonLCE

Writing Quotes SMS

Authors are magpies echoing each others words

Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.  ~Bergen…

Writing Quotes SMS

Id rather be caught holding up a

I’d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word…

Writing Quotes SMS

What would there be in a story

What would there be in a story of happiness?  Only what prepares it, only what…

Writing Quotes SMS

Dialogue is not just quotation it grimaces

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on…

Writing Quotes SMS

A great writer creates his precursors jorge

The debit is mutual; a great writer [A] great writer creates his precursors.  ~Jorge Luis…

Writing Quotes SMS

And by the way everything in life

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing…

Writing Quotes SMS

How vain it is to sit down

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up…