Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. – Anon.
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. – Nelson Algren
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. – Martin Amis
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. – Margaret Anderson
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson
If you don – James Atlas
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. – W. H. Auden
A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit. – Richard Bach
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin
