Writers
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist and playwright.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher and political economist.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.