Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
I have a writing addiction. Prince Rogers Nelson American Musician More Prince Rogers Nelson Quotes 8
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright American Comedian More Steven Wright Quotes 6
Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne American Novelist More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes 4
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald American Author More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes 3
Everything that happens to you influences your writing. Sheryl Crow American Singer More Sheryl Crow Quotes 3
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 2
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Edna Ferber American Novelist More Edna Ferber Quotes 2
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis American Poet More Don Marquis Quotes 1
As you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior. Emma Samms More Emma Samms Quotes 1
People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing,/ People writing songs that voices never shared. Paul Simon American Singer More Paul Simon Quotes 1
Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn. Rich Coleman More Rich Coleman Quotes 1
I had the idea of using Glen Benton on the song before even writing anything. However, instead of writing a typical death metal song, I wanted to do something a little more structured, even hooky, while still maintaining death metal and blast beat aspects. Joey Jordison More Joey Jordison Quotes 1
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one. Ludwig Feuerbach More Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes 1
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon Irish Artist More Francis Bacon Quotes 1
If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing. Hank Williams American Singer More Hank Williams Quotes 1
I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. Jackson Browne American Musician More Jackson Browne Quotes 1
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey English Critic More Lytton Strachey Quotes 1
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. Armistead Maupin American Novelist More Armistead Maupin Quotes 1
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. Laurell K. Hamilton American Writer More Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes 1
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. Kathy Acker American Activist More Kathy Acker Quotes 1