Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Communes Quotes

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abba Eban Quotes , Writing Quotes , Justice Quotes

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Confusing Quotes

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Garden Quotes

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Anderson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Writing Quotes

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Literature Quotes

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Furst Quotes , Writing Quotes , Plot Quotes

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Criticism Quotes

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Communication Quotes , Writing Quotes

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Editing Quotes

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fantasy Quotes

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akira Kurosawa Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Writing Quotes

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Flower Quotes , Writing Quotes

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Writing Quotes