writing Quotes

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Writing bores me so.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.