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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…
One ought only to write when one
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in…
If i dont write to empty my
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron
A writer and nothing else a man
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language,…
To withdraw myself from has ever been
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive…
Our passions shape our books repose writes
Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. ~Proust, The Past Recaptured,…
The difference between the almost right word
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large…
I write because im afraid to say
I write because I’m afraid to say some things out loud. ~Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com
There are men that will make you
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world,…
Loafing is the most productive part of
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer’s life. ~James Norman HallCUL
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. …
A prose writer gets tired of writing
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So…
Writing is a socially acceptable form of
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
It is the little writer rather than
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote,…
What i like in a good author
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he…
When i dont make any progress it
When I don’t make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall…
I love writing the swirl and swing
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with…
Being an author is being in charge
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Terri Guillemets
No man should ever publish a book
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a…
Writing i think is not apart from
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. …
Was it only by dreaming or writing
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?…
One must be drenched in words literally
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones…
A good style should show no signs
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a…
I want to write books that unlock
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head. ~John UpdikePL
One hates an author thats all author
One hates an author that’s all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo", stanza 75; BMC
The good writers touch life often mediocre
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. …
The land of literature is a fairy
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a…
You never have to change anything you
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night…
Caress your phrase tenderly it will end
Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. ~Anatole France
Its not plagiarism im recycling words
It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. …
The best time for planning a book
The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ~Agatha ChristieLCE
The most beautiful things are those that
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~André Gide, Journals,…
Write down the thoughts of moment those
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the…
It is necessary to write if the
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How…
Easy reading is damn hard writing nathaniel
Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every writer i know has trouble writing
Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller
You write to communicate the hearts and
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. …
The road to hell is paved with
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King
Dancing in all its forms cannot be
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;…
The writer writes in order to teach
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the…
Proofread carefully to see if you any
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~Author Unknown
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
Novelists fashioning nets to sustain and support
Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the…
Every word born of an inner necessity
Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else. ~Etty…
Writing is a struggle against silence carlos
Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes
Metaphors have a way of holding the
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~Orson Scott…
Writing is a product of silence carrie
Writing is a product of silence. ~Carrie Latet
Having imagination it takes you an hour
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were…
A synonym is a word you use
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. ~Baltasar…
If my doctor told me i had
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. …
The maker of a sentence launches out
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into…
I try to leave out the parts
I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard
An original writer is not one who
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. …
No author dislikes to be edited as
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. …
The role of a writer is not
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but…
We write to remember our nows later
We write to remember our nows later. ~Terri Guillemets
No one means all he says and
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for…
It seems to me that those songs
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing…
For me a page of good prose
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the…
Books want to be born i never
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist…
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~Hannah Arendt
A writer is somebody for whom writing
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other…
I hate writing love having written dorothy
I hate writing, I love having written. ~Dorothy Parker, may not be exact wordingGloria Steinem…
The process of writing has something infinite
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each…
My language is the common prostitute that
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ~Karl KrausCUL
Writing is both mask and unveiling eb
Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~E.B. WhitePL
The best style is the you dont
The best style is the style you don’t notice. ~Somerset MaughamPL
Sit down and put down everything that
Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a…
Words so innocent and powerless as
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how…
Dont be too harsh to these poems
Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends…
Ink on paper is as beautiful to
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes,…
I asked ring lardner the other day
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he…
Writing comes more easily if you have
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch
Substitute 34damn34 every time youre inclined to
Substitute "damn" every time you’re inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and…
Write your first draft with heart re write
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding…
The pages are still blank but there
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being…
Let me walk through the fields of
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and…
Drama instead of telling us the whole
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in…
All my best thoughts were stolen by
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonRDB; PMB
Publication is the auction of mind
Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily DickinsonLCE
Authors are magpies echoing each others words
Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. ~Bergen…
Id rather be caught holding up a
I’d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word…
What would there be in a story
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what…
Dialogue is not just quotation it grimaces
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on…
A great writer creates his precursors jorge
The debit is mutual; a great writer [A] great writer creates his precursors. ~Jorge Luis…
And by the way everything in life
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing…
How vain it is to sit down
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up…