Left Quote by George Eliot

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

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

— Sinclair Lewis

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

— Carlos J. Cortes

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

— Julia Ward Howe

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either…

— William Zinsser

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling.”

— David Sedaris

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is…

— Samuel Johnson