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- "I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog."
By: D.H. Lawrence Write Quotes
- "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
By: Ring Lardner Write Quotes
- "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
By: Robert Heinlein Write Quotes
- "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
By: Stephen King Write Quotes
- "We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
By: W. Somerset Maugham Write Quotes
- "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
By: W. Somerset Maugham Write Quotes
- "A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
By: W. Somerset Maugham Write Quotes
- "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
By: Isaac Asimov Write Quotes
- "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
By: Victor Hugo Write Quotes
- "The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."
By: Mark Twain Write Quotes
- "Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write"very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
By: Mark Twain Write Quotes
- "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."
By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton Write Quotes
- "Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind."
By: Florence Nightingale Write Quotes
- "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research."
By: Wilson Mizner Write Quotes
- "Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
By: Henry Miller Write Quotes
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- "Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods."
By: William Wordsworth Autumn Quotes
- "We lack but open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here;
The still small voice in autumn's hush,
Yon maple wood the burning bush."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier,
Chapel of the Hermits Autumn Quotes
- "The tints of autumn--a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, Frost."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "Autumn's earliest frost had given
To the woods below
Hues of beauty, such as heaven
Lendeth to its bow;
And the soft breeze from the west
Scarcely broke their dreamy rest."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away."
By: Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman Autumn Quotes
- "Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,
While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,
Comes jovial on."
By: James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 1) Autumn Quotes
- "The pale descending year, yet pleasing still,. a gentler mood inspires; for now the leaf incessant rustles from the mournful grove, oft startling such as studious, walk below, and slowly circles through the waving air."
By: James Thomson (1) Autumn Quotes
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