» Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generator 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
"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations." C.S. Lewis 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'" C.S. Lewis 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." T.S. Eliot 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy 4.647058823529412 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin 4.642857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." W. Somerset Maugham 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." Joseph Pulitzer 4.5625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." Marcel Proust 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls." John Donne 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." Mark Twain 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." Stephen King 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." GK Chesterton 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." GK Chesterton 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff." Adlai Stevenson 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written." Oscar Wilde 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky 4.473684210526316 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose." Oscar Wilde 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


<< 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













 
| privacy