Writers' Quotes

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

~Benjamin Franklin

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"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."

~Mark Twian

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"If you wish to be a writer; write!"

~ Epictetus – Greek Philosopher

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"It is the job of a writer to pay attention to detail."

~Earl Lovelace

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"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

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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are."

~Somerset Maugham

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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

~Ernest Hemmingway

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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

~Robert Browning

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"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."

~W.H. Auden