Quotes On Writer

Writers seldom write the things they think.
They simply write the things they think other folks think
they think.- Elbert Hubbard

The reason why so few good books are written is that
so few people who can write know anything.- Walter Bagehot

Bad writers are those who try to express their own
feeble ideas in the language of good ones.- G.C. Lichtenber

The most original thing a writer can do is write like
himself. It is also his most difficult task.- Robertson Davies

Creative writers are always greater than the cause that they represent. E.M. Forster

The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all
in the sixties.- W. Somerset Maugham

An author ought to write for the youth of his own
generation, the critics of the next, and the
schoolmasters of ever afterwards.- F. Scott Fitzerald

The most original authors are not so because they
advance what is new, but because they put what they
have to say as if it had never been said before.- J.W. Goethe

The author who speaks about own looks is almost as
bad as a mother who talks about her own children.- Disraeli

The pen is the tongue of the mind.- Cervantes

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for
writing, but couldn’t give it up because by that time I was
too famous.- Robert Benchley