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Writer Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
- There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,…
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying…
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
- The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply
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