Famous Quotes
172 Quotations with Writers.
- 1. Thomas Berger: Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- 2. Solomon Short: I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's s ...
- 3. C. C. Colton: Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on f ...
- 4. Johnson: One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, a ...
- 5. Dorothea Brande: The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsci ...
- 6. Edna Ferber: Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 11. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one p ...
- 12. Jack Warner: Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods.
- 13. John Berger: In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a cons ...
- 14. Cecilia Bartholomew: Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come ...
- 15. Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so mu ...
- 16. Horace Walpole: Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- 17. Pliny the Elder: In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of th ...
- 18. Daphne du Maurier: Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
- 19. Alfred North Whitehead: I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence ...
- 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to ...