Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Charles Caleb Colton

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Irwin Shaw

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Bell Hooks

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Zane Grey

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Stephen Ambrose

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Henri Poincare

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Paul Weyrich

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Irwin Shaw

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

Patricia Highsmith

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Charles Baudelaire

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Terry Southern

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Irwin Shaw

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ken Kesey

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Baruch Spinoza

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Ray Bradbury

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Stephen Ambrose

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

Colleen McCullough

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard