 May 31st, 2011Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
--Alexander Pushkin May 30th, 2011How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
--E. M. Forster May 29th, 2011A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
--John K. Hutchens May 28th, 2011If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
--Epictetus May 27th, 2011It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
--Sholem Asch May 26th, 2011I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
--B. K. Sandwell May 25th, 2011Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.
--Saul Bellow May 24th, 2011I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
--Oscar Wilde May 23rd, 2011All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
--Saul Bellow May 22nd, 2011He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.
--Irving Howe May 21st, 2011There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.
--Clifton Fadiman May 20th, 2011(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
--Mary Heaton Worse May 19th, 2011Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
--Marshall McLuhan May 18th, 2011The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
--Ethel Wilson May 17th, 2011It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson May 16th, 2011What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
--Samuel Johnson May 15th, 2011Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
--Jonathan Swift May 14th, 2011Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
--John Hersey May 13th, 2011I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
--Malcolm Lowry May 12th, 2011When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.
--Will Rogers May 11th, 2011As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
--Henry David Thoreau May 10th, 2011Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
--William James May 9th, 2011The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
--Samuel Johnson May 8th, 2011When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes May 7th, 2011Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
--Mary McCarthy March 6th, 2011I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
--Blaise Pascal May 5th, 2011Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
--Andre Maurois May 4th, 2011My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
--Joyce Carey May 3rd, 2011The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
--Gabrielle Roy May 2nd, 2011The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
--Thomas Wolfe May 1st, 2011Less is more.
--Robert Browning |
