To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
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