Category: Quotes

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson .

It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them.[…]

If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate – the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is[…]

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann .

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write[…]

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. P D James

I think [writing] should be done only in private, like any other lavatorial activity. Geoff Dyer .

The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying “Faire[…]

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their[…]