Army Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writers: believe! And go do the work . . .

— Theodora Goss

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

— David Mamet

Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not…

— Anonymous

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

— John Constable

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

— Ernest Lawrence

That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to…

— Bruce Berger

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our…

— Stephen Covey

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How…

— J.A. Konrath

This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can…

— Anne Lamott