Authorship Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as…

— Neel Mukherjee