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I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

» Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) Foremost philosopher and theologian of the Roman C

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

» Seneca (5-65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of Nero

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

» Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author And polymath

The Writeris either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

» Stephen Hawking (1942-?) English Physicist

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

» Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American Writerand filmaker

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

» Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) Foremost philosopher and theologian of the Roman C

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

» Stephen Hawking (1942-?) English Physicist

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

» Thomas Paine (1737-1809) English intellectual

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