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Charles Caleb Colton
That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Edmund Burke
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
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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.
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John Bunyan
As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
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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.
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Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
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Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
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Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length; Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.
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Richard Carew
Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.
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Samuel Butler
And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.
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