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

Whether or not you write well, write bravely

Whether or not you write well, write bravely

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way...

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way...

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book...

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book...

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...

But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and...

But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and...

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates...

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates...

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented...

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads