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633 quotes by 538 authors

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood. — Joseph Hergesheimer
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and… — Horace
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as… — Stefan Zweig
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future… — Ed Stetzer
I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve… — Paul Weyrich
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. — Ada Leverson
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However… — Mother Teresa
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will… — Robert Bly
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for… — Nicholas von Hoffman
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who… — George Gissing
Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who… — Thomas a Kempis
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with… — Matthew Scully
The more a man writes, the more he can write. — William Hazlitt

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