Quote by Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”

— Thucydides

“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we make others…

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell

“Writing amounts to removing a piece of yourself and exposing it to criticism. The bravery of that action alone deserves to be looked on…

— April Khaito

“The noblest motive is the public good.”

— Virgil

“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.”

— M.F.Moonzajer

“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains a civil…

— Joseph M. Williams

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New Statesman , February 25, 1933]”

— Cyril Connolly

“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”

— Anonymous

“Writing... is ... brave. You are brave.”

— Patricia MacLachlan

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by…

— Jacques-Louis David

“Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone.”

— Susan C. Young