132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

We were small back then. I can remember sitting down here and watching the first bet come in for $15,

He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha

The day turned out to be October 27, Sylvia's birthday. I had a book coming out about John McCain and I really wasn't thinking of Sylvia then.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Writing it was kind of hard, ... I wrote a lot of it on the road, and I don't really enjoy writing on the road. There's so much going on, doing interviews and going to radio stations and getting ready for shows. You're sick all the time, and there's no space on the bus. I'd rather write at home in Nashville.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.