May Quote by Samuel Johnson

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

— Elizabeth Bowen

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

— Samuel Johnson

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with…

— Paul Johnson

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

— Friedrich Schiller

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing…

— Plato