Written Quotes

History should be written as philosophy.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough,...

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figu...

The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like t...

Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to re...

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the d...

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom...

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ...

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acc...