"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin | Writers and Writing | 3 bookmarks

"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

Irving, John | Fiction | 2 bookmarks

"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. | Life and Living | 8 bookmarks

"We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

Fowles, John | Poetry and Poets | 2 bookmarks

"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

Moliere | Writers and Writing | 5 bookmarks

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Lewis, Cecil Day | Writers and Writing | 3 bookmarks

"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is."

Lemmon, Jack | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham | Ambiguity | 5 bookmarks

"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

Zinsser, William | Writers and Writing | 4 bookmarks

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time."

Shaw, George Bernard | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks