"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."

Writing, Creativity, Observation, Truth

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"The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Writing, Practice, Observation, Exercise

"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Writing, Loneliness, Communication, Story

"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, Tools, Writer

"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Writing, Day, Luck

"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, Plagiarism

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Writing, Time

"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, First, Summer

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Writing, World

"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

John Updike, American Novelist

Writing, May, Writers

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Writing, Word, Power, Expression

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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

Motivation

"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."

History

"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

Politics

"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."

History

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

Military

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

Life

"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."

Diplomacy

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"The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments."

"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Tuchman

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."

"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."

"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."

"England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last."

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."