writing Quotes

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.