H. G. Wells Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Writing Quotes

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Exclamation Points Quotes

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Writing Quotes

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Writing Quotes , Zest Quotes

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

6 years ago

Message Copied

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

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Clever Quotes , Writing Quotes

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Women Quotes , Writing Quotes

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Writing Quotes , Creativity Quotes

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Use Quotes

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Writing Quotes , Plans Quotes

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Writing Quotes , Support Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Writing Quotes

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Lace Quotes