George Ade on Writing
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Fran Lebowitz on Writing
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Florence Nightingale on Writing
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey on Writing
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Daphne du Maurier on Writing
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Cyril Connolly on Writing
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Charles de Montesquieu on Writing
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles Caleb Colton on Writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Bobby Knight on Writing
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Blaise Pascal on Writing
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.