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If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign – Albert Einstein
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. – John Milton
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. – Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. – Edwin Schlossberg
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. – Chinese Proverb
"To be a prized scientist you have to be good at science, to be a mathematician, you have to be good at math, to be a Pulitzer prize winner, you'd have to my excellent at writing, but to be a famous person in history, learning history will get you nowhere." -Anonymous – Jen
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded... – Plato, _Phaedrus_
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. – John le Carre
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord Crothers
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. – Stanislaw Lec
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. – Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. – Cyril Connolly
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. – Charles Peters
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. – Ivana Trump
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. – Robert Cecil Day Lewis
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. – Plato

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