| Author |
Quotes |
| Cervantes Saavedra | The pen is the tongue of the mind. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. |
| Edmund Burke | Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. |
| George Crabbe | Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones. |
| John Bunyan | As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. |
| Joseph Addison | The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. |
| Philip James Bailey | Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon | No call has ever poisoned by pen. |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon | Smelling of the lamp. |
| Richard Aungervyle | The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die. |
| Richard Carew | Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. |
| Samuel Butler | And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. |
| William Cowper | None but an author knows an author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. |
| William Cowper | Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads, Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us, or we die! |
| William Cowper | So that the jest is clearly to be seen, Not in the words--but in the gap between, Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. |
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