Authorship Quote by Horace

“How can you expect to write if you can't cry…Ling”

— Shirley Wine

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is.…

— Jonathan Kozol

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

— Horace

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

— Horace

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read…

— Karl Kraus

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are…

— William Golding

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

— Ewan McGregor

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly