8 Quotes Regarding Writing


The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Cervantes

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Colette

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Donald R. Marquis

Syllables govern the world.
John Selden

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw