Thus, it is either necessary to switch the entire cultural process from top to bottom to the Ukrainian language, or to be consistent and end Ukrainian literature and not put writers in a terrible, unenviable, difficult situation, which probably has no equal anywhere in the world, in any nation , which respects itself, and a government that respects its people.
The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
A writer, when he writes something, should feel completely at the height of the highest political figure, and not as a student or an apprentice.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
—Franz Kafka
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
—Plato
“He cannot wilfully offend against such love; on the contrary, he feels himself bound to obey God in return for such unsearchable grace; and thus by a sense of love doth God write his law upon the hearts of his people.”
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is better to love and do than to write and speak.
—Taras Shevchenko
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
—Ernest Hemingway
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
—Franz Kafka
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
—Ernest Hemingway
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
—Henry David Thoreau
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In order to write about life first you must live it.
—Ernest Hemingway
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
—Cicero
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Write to me and don’t be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I’ll break your head.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I can’t write much, because writing so many parts of the opera has made my fingers painful.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.
—Socrates