Writing Art Quotes

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how to be visual and economical with scenes. However, finally it's the individuality of the writer that will come into play.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.