Writers and Writing Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Johnson
Creative writers are always greater than the cause that they represent.
E. M. Forster
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
The trouble with our younger authors is they are all in the sixties.
Somerset Maugham
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school masters ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
W. Wilson
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never said before.
J.W. Goethe
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
All writing comes by the grace of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre Gide
Often you must turn your styles to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Horace
An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many and grows old with their stick hearts.
Juvenal Stires
If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism, if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
Alexander Pope
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that is scarcely felt or seen.
Lady Mary Wortley Montage
If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
John Sheffield
