Quotes about Writing

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

#Health, #Work, #Writing

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

#Books, #Writing

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble

#Kindness, #Writing

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought...

#Mankind, #Thinking, #Writing

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course...

#Life, #Painting, #Writing

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

#Emotion, #Writing

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

#Writing

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

#Inspiration, #Writing

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

#Grammar, #Writers, #Writing

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should...

#Language, #Words, #Writers

The true poem rests between the words.

#Poems, #Poetry, #Poets

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

#Death, #Writers, #Writing