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.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.
An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.
The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.
The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.
HackerSpaces are not for cracking, would you mind googlling that before writing complaints?
What was the use of writing if someone didn't read what you have to say?