Famous Quotes
490 Quotations with Writing.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 29. Plato: Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who rece ...
- 30. Kinsgley Amis: If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- 31. Andre Gide: If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
- 32. Paul Fussell: If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in peo ...
- 33. John Berger: In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a cons ...
- 34. Isabel Colegate: It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It save ...
- 35. George Eliot: When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less u ...
- 36. Russell Baker: The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely o ...
- 37. Thomas Mann: A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other peo ...
- 38. W. Somerset Maugham: There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what th ...
- 39. Samuel McChord Crothers: A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins ...
- 40. Plato: For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who ...