One day I will submit to resting my pen but for now, this is the perfect time to keep 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.
Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself.
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
I do not communicate through the computer with friends. Can you imagine, I'm still writing letters.