Writing Quotes

• In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

• I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true.

• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

• Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

• It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

• You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

• I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

• Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

• Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

• Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'

• There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

• The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

• The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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