Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Quote by David McCord

Topics: Writing Quotes

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being...

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being...

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands...

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no...

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no...

Writing is a craft not an art.

Writing is a craft not an art.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good...

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

The more we write the less we die.

The more we write the less we die.