Abstinence Quote by Charles Lamb

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety…

— Samuel Johnson

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis