Thomas Berger on Writing
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
T. S. Eliot on Writing
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Solomon Short on Writing
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Sir Francis Bacon on Writing
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Saul Bellow on Writing
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.
Samuel Johnson on Writing
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.
Samuel Johnson on Writing
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Goldwyn on Writing
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Russell Baker on Writing
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russel Lynes on Writing
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.