Quotes on Writing

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.