Books Quote by Pliny the Elder

“ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are…

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing…

— James E. Irby

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he…

— Paul Valery

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On…

— Joyce Thompson

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of…

— Charles Peguy

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some…

— John Dos Passos

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat.,…

— Horace

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

— Harlan Ellison