Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Sallust

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

Tobias Wolff

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Thomas Hobbes

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Irwin Shaw

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Irwin Shaw

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Herman Melville

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Philip Levine

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Jeffery Deaver

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Christopher Darden

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Jim Harrison

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Marilyn vos Savant

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

Miguel de Icaza

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

J. B. Priestley

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

Charles Kuralt

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Lynn Abbey

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

David McCullough

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Irvine Welsh