Qouted
Home
On This Day
People
Quotes
Blogs
Histories
Search
Quotes
Total 12449 Quotes
Search
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
― Yaşar Kemal
Sad
Encouragement
Writing
Write
Good
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
― François Rabelais
Laughter
Writing
Men
Courageous
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
― Julio Cortázar
Life
Writing
Opposites
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
― Guy de Maupassant
Girl
Kings
Writing
All writing is a form of prayer.
― John Keats
Prayer
Writing
Form
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That’s why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.
― John Fante
Believe
Writing
Heart
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
― Italo Calvino
Confining
Writing
Immensity
Italo Calvino
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Writing
Darlings
Kill
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Writer
Writing
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
― Thomas Mann
Writing
People
Difficult
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
― Bertolt Brecht
Running
Lying
Writing
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
― J. D. Salinger
Book
Reading
Writing
J. D. Salinger
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. Salinger
Writing
Want
Pleasure
J. D. Salinger
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
― Hans Christian Andersen
Wise
Writing
Men
Poems
People
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
― Lord Byron
Writing
Ears
Way
Fretful
Scribbler
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
― Lord Byron
Dream
Writing
Play
Publish
Drink
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous. —Robert Benchley
Positive Quotes For Students
Fifteen
Discover
Writing
Live it up so you can write it down.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Ernest Hemingway
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Humility
Crafts
Ernest Hemingway
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Night
Nails
Ernest Hemingway
‹
1
2
3
4
›