writing Quotes. writing Quotations Interactive Database. Page #2

�	Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generator add quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes)

Quote DB :: Writing Search in this category

Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand."	Ernest Hemingway
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press."	Mark Twain
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."	Adlai Stevenson
"Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'"	Nachman of Bratslav
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."	GK Chesterton
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."	J.R.R. Tolkien
"I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'"	Saul Bellow
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."	Saul Bellow
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."	Saul Bellow
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."	Andrew Jackson
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."	Gloria Steinem
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."	GK Chesterton
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."	Fran Lebowitz
"I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true."	Dorothy Parker
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."	Ernest Hemingway

<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next >>

Browse Writing quotes by Author:

Adlai Stevenson	Andrew Jackson	Anne Sexton
Benjamin Franklin	Bill Clinton	Blaise Pascal
Charles Caleb Colton	C.S. Lewis	Dave Barry
Dorothy Parker	E.B. White	Ernest Hemingway
Fran Lebowitz	Francis Bacon	Frank Lloyd Wright
George Orwell	GK Chesterton	Gloria Steinem
Gustave Flaubert	Hunter S. Thompson	Isaac Disraeli
James Michener	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Donne	Joseph Pulitzer	J.R.R. Tolkien
Marcel Proust	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Mark Twain
Martin Luther King Jr.	Matthew Arnold	Matthew Clayfield
Nachman of Bratslav	Napoleon Bonaparte	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde	Ring Lardner	Robert Frost
Robert Wilensky	Samuel Johnson	Saul Bellow
Stephen King	Theodor Seuss Geisel	Theodore Roosevelt
Tom Clancy	T.S. Eliot	W. Somerset Maugham

� Copyright QuoteDB.com

privacy

- Get a Quote
  
  in your email every day!
  
  We respect your privacy.
  You can unsubscribe at any time.

Get a random quote daily in your email!