Quotation Saturday

Psalm 4:6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make." 

~Truman Capote
 

"Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together." 

~Buffon
 

"Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory." ~Chateaubriand
 

"Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to." 

~Somerset Maugham

"Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer." Julien Green
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Somerset Maugham

"Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." Matthew Arnold
"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay." 

~Mark Twain
 

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." 

~Mark Twain V.S. Pritchett
 

"You must write for yourself, above all. That is [your] only hope of creating something beautiful." 

~Gustave Flaubert

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
 ~Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)