132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.