FAVORITE QUOTES ABOUT WRITING
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story writer.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) French philosopher and poet
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
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