Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities…

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

— Horace

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what…

— Diane Arbus

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make…

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.”

— Flannery O'Connor

We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.

— Miriam Toews

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the…

— Cornell Capa

“I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

— Horace

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

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

— Horace

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