And love Quote by Samuel Johnson

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in…

— John Farrar

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed…

— Francis Parkman

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an…

— Francis Bacon

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

“To me, the urge to be published is equivalent to the first quarter of the hero's journey, where normal life seems not quite enough.…

— Rob Parnell

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira