Art Of Writing Quotes

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer’s mind.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it – whole-heartedly – and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love’s most honeyed kiss,– This art of writing billet-doux– In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.