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• "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
  By: ^ Matthew Arnold
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• "The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing."
  By: ^ Martin Luther
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• "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
  By: ^ Mark Twain The Art of Composition in Life as I Find It ed. by Neider
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• "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
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• "What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach."
  By: ^ Logan Pearsall Smith
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• "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
  By: ^ Lillian Hellman
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• "Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible."
  By: ^ Leo Tolstoy
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• "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen."
  By: ^ Leo Tolstoy
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• "I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?"
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell You, John Milton
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• "The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to."
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell The Untarnished Gold, the Immutable Treasure
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• "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..."
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell The Little Package
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• "This is the gift all writers seek--to write language that incandesces yet does not melt."
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell The Little Package
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• "A writer must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come."
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell Books in My Baggage
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• "To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
  By: ^ Lawrence Clark Powell A Southwestern Century
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• "Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people--if only they'd stop writing."
  By: ^ Laura Miller from a salon.com review of the movie Finding Forrester
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• "Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
  By: ^ Katherine Mansfield
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