Some of My Favorite Quotes
"We write to taste life twice; in the moment and in retrospection."
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
-Anais Nin
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written, or badly-written. That is all."
-Oscar Wilde
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
-E.L. Doctorow
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish."
-John Jakes
"Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
-C.S. Lewis
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic, the fear, which is inherent in the human condition."
-Graham Greene
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
-Leonard Berstein
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write"
-Stephen King
"All the fun is in how you say a thing."
-Robert Frost
"If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me"
-Shakespeare
"Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail."
-Ernest Hemingway
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions"
-James Michener
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manisfestations, and always done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than four thousand bayonets."
-Napolean Bonaparte
