in Quotations

Writing Quotes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  • Henry David Thoreau

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

  • Francoise Sagan

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and finish without knowing what you have written.

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau

I especially like the last one.