Writing

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.

--John Dewey

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

--Ernest Hemingway

Good books are not written; they are rewritten.

--Phyllis Whitney

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

--Thomas Jefferson

Words, once they're printed, have a life of their own.

--Carol Burnett

Why write? All men ask, and seek in the thoughts and experiences of other men some faint echo of a chord which they have heard, to resolve at last the dissonance of their own experiences.

--John Anthony

This is the kind of English up with which I shall not put.

--Winston Churchill

Never fear big words.

Big long words name little things.

All big things have little names.

Such as life and death, peace and war,

Or dawn, day, night, hope, love, home.

Learn to use little words in a big way.

It is hard to do.

But they say what you mean.

When you don't know what you mean--

Use big words.

They often fool little people.

--Arthur Kodner to his son

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

--E. B. White

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

--S. I. Hayakawa

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

--Lincoln Barnett

Words can explode into bombs that destroy the world or into friendships that bring it together. Words have ever been superior to gunpowder as a weapon and a tool. A simple "Where have you been?" turns from peace to powder with a change of inflection.

--Easy in English

Keep cheerfully at the task of teaching children the writing disciplines, and rejoice greatly at each new inch of progress achieved, but don't break your heart over your failures.

--Easy in English