Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry B. Adams

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Naguib Mahfouz

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

David Guterson

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donna Tartt

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Irwin Shaw

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Samuel Richardson

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

William Hazlitt

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Winston Churchill

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Lech Walesa

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Clifford Geertz

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Sarah Palin

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Fred Saberhagen

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

Donna Tartt

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Anne Tyler

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Octavia Butler

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Nicholas Sparks

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates