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 try as a writer, to simply get on with the act of writing.
I only know that when one is writing truly creatively, one works in images, not ideas.
Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing instructive in what I wrote.
Patience is the only honest muse. In writing, in painting, and especially in photography.
The pandemic has forced a balance in the nation’s perspective where food writing is concerned.