Quotes about Writing

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

For Thérèse, poetry was not "art for amusement," because she did not write for her own satisfaction but out of duty, or at least with a concern to serve, to help, and to encourage.6

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.