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• Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  Alfred Edward Housman

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• It 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

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• There is but one art, to omit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about a man.

  E. B. White

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• Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.

  Maxwell Perkins

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• Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing – for life itself is a writer’s love until death.

  Edna Ferber

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• The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

  Quintilian

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• The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

  Samuel Johnson

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• When you’re a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, and if you are at all intelligent you realize that you have lost something. But I think there has always been this dichotomy in a real writer. He wants to be terribly human, and he responds emotionally, but at the same time there’s this cold observer who cannot cry.

  Brian Moore

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• It 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

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• He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

  Virginia Woolf

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• In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

  Edith Wharton

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• We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

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• Every 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

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• Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

  Henry Vaughan

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• My 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

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• Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

  Laurence Sterne

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• Writing 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

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• The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

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