“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why I love these words They are mine You cannot change that You cannot rearrange that Try as you might You cannot… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Copy Share Image
“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image