Dorothy Day Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

  Dorothy Day

  Nice, Writing, Knitting

• I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

  Dorothy Day

  Jesus, War, Believe

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.51, A&C Black

• The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Talking, Important

• Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

  Dorothy Day

  Hard Work, Writing, Want

• Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Simple, Reality

• You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Way

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