People Quote by Anonymous

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

— Anonymous

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

— Claire Tomalin