The writing is on the wall. Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about writing and writers.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.Keith Richards
An oral agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.(unknown author)
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.William Wordsworth
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.George Bernard Shaw
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.Anne Frank
I can't write, I can't paint, but I can hike!(unknown author)
I don't need no walls around me.Pink Floyd
And I don't need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need any thing at all.
Source: Lyrics: Another Brick in the Wall
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.Robert Louis Stevenson
I know how to spell banana, but I don't know when to stop.(unknown author)
I love words.Richard Dawkins
I thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.Elmore Leonard
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Toni Morrison
Never write a letter while you are angry.
New Year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.Alex Morritt
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.Dave Barry
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.Lucy Maud Montgomery
Source: Anne of Green Gables
Tears are words that need to be written.Paulo Coelho
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Agatha Christie
The biggest lie I tell myself is ... "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."(unknown author)
The desire to write grows with writing.Desiderius Erasmus
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.Alvin Toffler
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.Benjamin Franklin
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.Melody Beattie
The pen is mightier than the sword.Convincing people with words and ideas is more effective than forcing them to do what you want.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.Horace
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.John Steinbeck
The writing on the wall.A sign of doom or misfortune.
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,Kahlil Gibran
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.Steven Pinker
Source: How the Mind Works
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.Burton Rascoe
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.Andy Rooney
Writing is a struggle against silence.Carlos Fuentes
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.Jules Renard
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.F. Scott Fitzgerald
You fail only if you stop writing.Ray Bradbury
