Writers Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an ink-stand!
Herman Melville (1819-1891) American writer
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof sheets, he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet
Admitted into the company of paper blurrers.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English poet, critic, soldier
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents’ or my own?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) American playwright
Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor of Edgar
Allan Poe He was worse than provincial — he was parochial.
Henry James (1843-1916) American novelist of Henry David
Thoreau Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful dilly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
The author who invents a title well Will always find his covered dulness sell.
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) English poet
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) English scholar, essayist
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author
No author is a man of genius to his publisher.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet, journalist
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world —they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
C. N. Boyce (1820-1904) American editor, writer
After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.
George Ade (1866-1944) American humorist, playwright
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Writers don’t need love. All they require is money.
John Osborne (b. 1929) British playwright
Some day I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer, writer
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist
A first edition of his work is a rarity, but a second is rarer still.
Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960) American journalist, humorist
WRITING The insatiate itch of scribbling.
William Gifford (1756-1826) English journalist
writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon (1904-1985) French novelist
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister
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.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
Moliere (1622-1673) French playwright
It is just when ideas are lacking that a phrase is most welcome.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist
I do most of my work sitting down; that’s where I shine.
Robert Benchley (1889-1945) American humorous writer
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist, philosopher
One should always aim at being interesting rather than exact
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist
‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in’t.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, illustrator
