Fabulous Quotes
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin
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
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf
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. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester
Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~E.B. White
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~Gustave Flaubert
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ~G.K. Chesterton
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~Samuel Johnson
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin
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
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf
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. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester
Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~E.B. White
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~Gustave Flaubert
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ~G.K. Chesterton
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~Samuel Johnson
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley