Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“Some people have a lot of time, but no money-- It's because they don't work hard enough. Some people have a lot… — Bob Sharpe Copy Share Image
It's the next phase of authorship of this country's energy future. It's gonna come from the people. It's not gonna be deus… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.” — Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell Copy Share Image
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!” — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
