# Quotes about writing

> Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. 
*—William Wadsworth* 

> However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. 
*—Jean Jacques Rousseau*

> What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. 
*—Samuel Johnson*

> If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. 
*—Benjamin Franklin*

> "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
*—Anaïs Nin* (from Wikipedia)

> Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.  
*—Katherine Mansfield*

> Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. 
*—(Jules Renard)*