writing Quotes

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.