I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray 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
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
“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
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
“I've worked extremely hard to become what I naturally am and what I want to be. My manuscripts/books didn't write, rework, edit… — Bettina Victoria 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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can… — Charles Lloyd 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
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit 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
“The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work… — Alexis Lykiard Copy Share Image
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do… — Lars Saabye Christensen 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
“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
But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor… — Edmund Spenser 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
For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which,… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image