Authorship Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

— Marguerite Duras

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the…

— Samuel Johnson

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny…

— Henry David Thoreau

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the…

— Anna Seward

Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who we are.…

— Lisa Joy

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara