Writing Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —…

— Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such…

— Charles Caleb Colton