Quote Genre: Writing

Cyril Connolly – ‘Better to write for yourself…

‘Better to write for yourself and have no public than write for the public and have no self.’

Quote Author: Cyril Connolly | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what its about but the music the words make.’

Quote Author: Truman Capote | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘Those who write clearly have readers those who write obscurely have commentators.’

Quote Author: Albert Camus | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.’

Quote Author: Samuel Butler the Younger | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.’

Quote Author: Frank Morrison Mickey Spillane | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘Major writing is to say what has been seen so that it need never be said again.’

Quote Author: Delmore Schwartz | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘I take the view and always have that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought go to away and write a book about it.’

Quote Author: Reginald Lord Brabazon | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.’

Quote Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘The only reason for being a professional writer is that you cant help it.’

Quote Author: Leo Calvin Rosten | Quote Genre: Writing |

‘SCRIBBLER n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to ones own.’

Quote Author: Ambrose Gwinett Bierce | Quote Genre: Writing |