Quotes On Writing

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.- Pope

You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing’s curst hard reading.- R.B. Sheridan

…. Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite :
Fool! Said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.- Sir Philip Sidney

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man.- Francis Bacon

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the
reader’s intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.- E.B. White

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may
be sure was thought twice.- H.D. Thoreau

I can’t understand how anyone can write without
rewriting everything over and over again.- Leo Tolstoy

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it become a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.- Winston Churchill

If you wish to be a writer, write.- Epictetus