All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Writing”

“Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.”
“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
“It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.”
“I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.”
“I do not know what I think until I write it.”
“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”
“They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.”
“Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.”
“The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.”
“If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.”

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