Busy Quote by Erwin Chargaff

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread…

— Henry David Thoreau

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of…

— Ray Bradbury

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and…

— H. L. Mencken