Miguel de Cervantes Quotes about Writing

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Miguel de Cervantes

Teacher, Writing, Mind

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

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”

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