Writing Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1431144594
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Writing Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1431113969
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Writing Quotes by SAUL BELLOW-1431112188
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Writing Quotes by SIR FRANCIS BACON-1431110838
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Writing Quotes by SOLOMON SHORT-1431109405
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Writing Quotes by LEO ROSTEN-1431106536
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writing Quotes by LEONARD BERNSTEIN-1431060398
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Writing Quotes by LORD BRABAZON-1431020662
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Writing Quotes by PLINY THE ELDER-1431019310
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Writing Quotes by PLINY THE YOUNGER-1431019303
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
Writing Quotes by RAY BRADBURY-1431018738
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Writing Quotes by RING LARDNER-1431016255
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Wisdom Quotes by JAMES BOSWELL-1431014731
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Wisdom Quotes by MAHATMA GANDHI-1431013480
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Wisdom Quotes by MARCEL PROUST-1431010676
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Wisdom Quotes by MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS-1431009395
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Writing Quotes by ROBERT HEINLEIN-1431008103
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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