Writing Quotes

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.