Writing Quotes

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don�t write about Man, write about 'a' man.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.