Harlan Ellison Quotes

If you can talk, you can write.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

Writing is a great love of mine.

Reading taught me how to write.

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I love to write.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.