Offers Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written…

— Anonymous

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.”

— Ka Hancock

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people…

— Rick Reilly

“When did people begin to wear clothing with writing on it? Was this not significant? I visit a beach resort. There is a fellow…

— Richard Todd

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

— Todor Zhivkov

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw