Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.  Charles Caleb Colton quotes Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway quotes Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. Moliere quotes Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. Winston Churchill quotes The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal. Ernest Hemingway quotes I'd like to introduce my color prints under the most favorable of conditions. For this reason I must separate them by intervals of a different character. I decided that handwriting was best suited for this purpose. The exceptional size of the writing seems necessary to me in order to be in a decorative relationship with the character of the color prints. These pages, therefore will serve only to accompany my colors, just as asters help in the composition of a bouquet of more important flowers. Their role is purely visual Henri Matisse quotes The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. Thomas Jefferson quotes The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Robert Louis Stevenson quotes For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway quotes | 
