Becoming-a-writer Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…

— Isaac Newton

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods,…

— Thomas Aquinas

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

— Alfred Kazin

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

— Bryant H. McGill

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all…

— Allan Gurganus