Art Of Writing Quotes by Novalis, Jorge Luis Borges, Kinky Friedman, François-René de Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Clarence Day and many others.
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
