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Writing Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
- Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
- There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
- We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity,…
- Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory…
- Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
- All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
- It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages…
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote…
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
- Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read…
- Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that…
- Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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