Quotes about writing
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)- Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Written in a letter from Reading Prison to Lord Alfred Douglas (early 1897)- Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
- Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Thornton Wilder1897–1975The New York Times (6 November 1961)- Thornton Wilder1897–1975Writers at Work interview (1958)
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4- Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, pp. 43-44