Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing…

Wisdom is knowledge because it is the foundation one's requires for a successful life, and it attracts all blessings.

— Gift Okoroji

You are the inspiration behind all that I do, and the source of all that is good in my life.

— Dee

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

— Edward Young

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae…

— Horace

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

— Horace

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

— Horace

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

— Horace

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem…

— George Santayana

“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have…

— Donna Scrima-Black

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon