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Hilaire Belloc Quotes about Writing

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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Hilaire Belloc
Writing, Army, Blow
Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1447, Delphi Classics

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Hilaire Belloc
Real, Writing, Sailing
Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

Hilaire Belloc
Real, Writing, People

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Hilaire Belloc
Book, Writing, Dull

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Hilaire Belloc
Writing, Way, Language
Hilaire Belloc (1967). “On”

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Hilaire Belloc
Writing, Empty, Worst
Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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