Writing Quotes

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

I hope you are still writing things that no one else will ever see.

When you write me into your story, don’t set my end in stone. Feel free to let me go. I’d like to join your story, but remember I have my own.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

Through writing we try to give sense to the thoughts in our heads and the chaos in our souls and the scars in our hearts.