Thornton Wilder Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Be Good, Impress

• The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Winning, Way

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

• I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

  Thornton Wilder

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Men, Roles

  Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

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