Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

— Julio Cortazar

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

— Bridget of Sweden

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“By the power of this, may the obstacles of those great beings who are doctrine holders be dispelled!!! May the lives of those who…

— Sarah Jacoby Khandro

Writing is a bit like being a god

— Charlie Higson

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom