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
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
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. Amy Winehouse English Musician More Amy Winehouse 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 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
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
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway American Novelist More Ernest Hemingway 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
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. Dave Barry American Journalist More Dave Barry Quotes 1
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury American Writer More Ray Bradbury 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
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. Ken Follett Welsh Author More Ken Follett Quotes 1