writing

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

—Aristotle

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

—Mark Twain

We have lost the sense & the wonder of His awe-fullness, His perfection, His beauty.

Oh, I feel that we should preach it, sing it, write about it, talk about it & tell it until we have recaptured the concept of the Majesty of God!

—AW Tozer

But, oh, to love and praise God more, to please him for ever! this my soul panted after, and even now pants for while I write.

—David Brainerd

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

—Oscar Wilde

If humanity was able to learn by direct observation of children, I could have spared myself the trouble to write this book.

—Sigmund Freud

Our memories are selective and fallible, so put it in writing.

—Peter R. Rose

Make ‘To Do’ lists — if you write it down, chances are it’ll get done.

—Peter R. Rose