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The art of
writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the
seat of the chair.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse
I love being a
writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
-- Peter De Vries
1910-, American Author
Writing saved
me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
-- Alice Walker
1944-, American Author,
Critic
Every drop of
ink in my pen ran cold.
-- Horace Walpole
1717-1797, British Author
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Once in seven
years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot
write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
-- John Wesley
1703-1791, British Preacher,
Founder of Methodism
Good writing
is clear thinking made visible.
-- Bill Wheeler
In a sense the
world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any
good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire
existence and has held earth close around him, like the
little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of
eggs attached to his legs.
-- E
lwyn) B(rooks) White
(1899-1985, American Author, Editor
Writing is an
act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
-- E
lwyn) B(rooks) White
(1899-1985, American Author, Editor
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