Thornton Wilder Quotes about Writing

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If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Thornton Wilder

Writing, Be Good, Impress

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Thornton Wilder

Writing, Men, Roles

Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

Writing, Winning, Way

Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.