Lord Byron Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Mad, Mind

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

• But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

  Lord Byron

  Liars, Hate, Writing

  Letter to John Murray from Venice, April 2 1817, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 5 (1976)

• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Ears, Way

• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Solitude, Letters

• But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.420, Xist Publishing

• In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2993, Delphi Classics

• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Hero, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• One hates an author that's all author.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Writing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.98, Routledge

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