Writing Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

“Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader’s judgments will agree with those implicit in…

— John Ciardi

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all. They are foolish, idle, damnable sins, because…

— Roland H. Bainton

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the…

— Samuel Johnson

“There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires an act of true character”

— Joel Kirkpatrick

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety…

— Samuel Johnson

“Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all,…

— Sir Walter Raleigh

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Charles Bukowski