James Russell Lowell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Writing, Fit

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.162

• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

  James Russell Lowell

  Stars, Writing, Two

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

• Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Lasts

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

• If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Waiting, Right Time

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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