Home / Topics / Writing Quotes

Writing Quotes

Browse 36579 quotes about Writing.

Writing Quotes

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Art Said Might Interesting Goes On Titles Works Of Art Something Interesting

Author:Damien Hirst

“For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.”

Writing Art Facts Mystery Conditions Constant West Musical Graves Works Of Art Composition Joyce Epithet Musical Composition

Book:Real Presences

Source: Real Presences