Writing Quotes

"Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change" "The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'" "I want to write the saddest lines tonight." "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."