Our Soviet comrades never put really serious and grave matters in 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.
I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
The mind of writing never tires
When the heart's partner in the work.
Writing is absolutely the work of freedom. Not just freedom dreaming but being free.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Q: Are you worried that if you start living it up you'll stop writing good songs?