Quotes about Writing
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
— Ernest Hemingway
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
— Samuel Johnson
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
— William Saroyan
This was such bad writing that it was good.
— William Saroyan
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
— William Saroyan
To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.
— Clement of Alexandria
Choice words in precise order bear power unmatched by amplified images and sound and technical magic (Writing for the Soul, p. 54).
— Jerry B. Jenkins
The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).
— Jerry B. Jenkins
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
— Samuel Johnson
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
— Tina Fey
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
— William Hazlitt