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)