| |
| I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. | | James A. Michener | |
| I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. | | Marcel Proust | |
| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| |
| I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. | | Ingrid Bergman | |
| I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. | | Daniel J. Boorstin | |
| |
| If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. | | Lord Byron | |
| If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. | | Lillian Hellman | |
| If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it ! | | Alfred Adler | |
| If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. | | Anais Nin | |
| If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write | | Epictetus | |
| If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you. | | Dorothy Parker | |
| In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by disc | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| |
| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It’s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I’d like to pin down a few while they are still wet. | | John Steinbeck | |
