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April 30th, 2011A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
--Karl Kraus April 29th, 2011When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.
--Samuel Johnson April 28th, 2011How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
--Henry David Thoreau April 27th, 2011It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
--John Mason Brown April 26th, 2011Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
--A. E. Housman April 25th, 2011There is but one art, to omit.
--Robert Louis Stevenson April 24th, 2011Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.
--Vincent McHugh April 23rd, 2011Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
--Roland Barthes April 22nd, 2011Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.
--Dakin Williams April 21st, 2011Life cannot
defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's
love until death.
--Edna Ferber April 20th, 2011Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.
--Maxwell Perkins April 19th, 2011When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
--Hilaire Belloc April 18th, 2011The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
--Samuel Johnson April 17th, 2011Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
--E. B. White April 16th, 2011He is limp and
damp and milder than the breath of a cow.
--Virginia Woolf April 15th, 2011The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
--Quintilian April 14th, 2011Every great and
original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create
the taste by which he is to be relished.
--William Wordsworth April 13th, 2011Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
--Laurence Sterne April 12th, 2011A great many
people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.
--Edith Sitwell April 11th, 2011My method is to
take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with
the utmost levity.
--George Bernard Shaw April 10th, 2011The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
--Ernest Hemingway April 9th, 2011Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.
--Stephen Leacock April 8th, 2011When I am dead,
I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
--Hilaire Belloc April 7th, 2011Get black on
white.
--Guy de Maupassant April 6th, 2011We are as much
informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson April 5th, 2011Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
--Samuel Johnso April 4th, 2011Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
--Aldous Huxley April 3rd, 2011In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
--Edith Wharton April 2nd, 2011It is a sobering
thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into
the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.
--J. M. Barker April 1st, 2011Caesar had perished from the world of men had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
--Henry Vaughan |
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