Anything Quote by 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

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…

— 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

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

— Harriet Martineau

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann