When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
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.
Write your way out of a thinking block—because you'll never think your way out of a writing block.
I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.
"Writing allows me to preserve worlds that are disappearing before our eyes."
Writing is a lonely profession, and after the Holocaust, Yiddish writers were doubly lonely.
In essence, all poets contribute to writing the great endless poem.
"Writing can't be done for leisure, but for me it's a joy of life and I love writing every day."
I was a kid who was writing scripts in elementary school and always trying to do plays.