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 ...

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