Writing Quotes
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that’s always amazing to me.
Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
Write while the heat is in you.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard. It doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time.
Shawn MendesShawn Mendes I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
Emma WatsonEmma Watson A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Words could paint pictures.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez