Authorship Quote by Josh Billings Download Open image “Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.” — Josh Billings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authorship Education Firsts Lasts Should Simple Success Successful Writing
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.” — Scott Ciencin Copy Share Image
You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . .… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image