Quotes about writing
377 quotes from 206 people
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Lecture by The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oslo, Norway (December 11, 1964) p. 1.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’
Stephen Kingborn 1947The Stand (1978) (Uncut), Preface (part 2)In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Mark Twain1835–1910Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson WoolfFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than an hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon1769–1821Appears to be fabricated as it is not known from surviving print before 19 March 1845 when it appeared in Mississippi Democrat in an article titled ‘The Press’ and in The North-Carolina Standard on its own as a column filler. On April 17, 1845 a long- CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; CCXLVIII
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
I don’t care what is written about me, so long as it isn’t true.
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
