Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The pen is the tongue of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Teacher, Writing, Mind

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.370

• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1825). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.108

• There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Book, Writing, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

• The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Soul, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1898). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Hands, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.214, Collector's Library

• It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Should Have, Epic Poems

• The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Soul, Language

• For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Action, Born

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1990). “Don Quixote”

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