You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
Writing Quotes
The page is led by Shakespeare, then William Zinsser, the author of On Writing Well, followed by Horace and Orwell. Three old sources are worth knowing: Bacon’s Meditationes Sacræ (1597) says reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man; Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says it is vain to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live; and Horace’s Ars Poetica is the source for the idea that the writer wins by mixing profit with pleasure.
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then for your friends, then for money” is credited to Virginia Woolf and flagged misattributed. The notes quote an anecdote from a Tyrol coffee-house in which someone else says something similar. Two more flagged lines are credited to Cicero and to Menander.
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing.
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
Life in the world is like a manuscript of writings that is still in rough draft.
I have always loved writing and I'm getting more into it these days, especially children's books.
"Writing requires inner peace, tranquility, and everything necessary for one's well-being."