Blue Quote by William James

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

— Martial

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said…

— Dorothy Parker

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

— Martial

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

— John Andrew Holmes

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....

— Jorge Luis Borges

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

— Herta Muller

“[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.”

— Kató Lomb

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page,…

— Harrison Birtwistle

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker