Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.
Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.
The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
The desire to write grows with writing.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
