1917 Quotations with Writ.
- 421. Christopher Hampton: Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post ...
- 422. Joseph Addison: Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull somet ...
- 423. Helen Gurley Brown: Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking -- can.
- 424. Dame Ethel Smyth: Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally ...
- 425. Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
- 426. Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, ...
- 427. William A. Ward: Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Befor ...
- 428. Mark Twain: Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man ...
- 429. Arthur James Balfour: Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
- 430. Henry David Thoreau: Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- 431. Charlotte Bronte: But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of wh ...
- 432. Alexis de Tocqueville: By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regular ...
- 433. William Shakespeare: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; pluck from the memory a rooted sorro ...
- 434. Georg C. Lichtenberg: Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every person: ...
- 435. William J. Durant: Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood f ...
- 436. William Zinsser: Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnec ...
- 437. Jean Kerr: Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the ...
- 438. Edward M. Forster: Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
- 439. Charles Davenport: Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe.
- 440. Mark Twain: Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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