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  • "'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
    By: Æschylus
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  • "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)"
    By: Douglas Noel Adams
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  • "Writing is thinking on paper."
    By: William Zinsser
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  • "We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
    By: Virginia Woolf
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  • "From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it."
    By: Oscar Wilde
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  • "In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs."
    By: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
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  • "Good writing is clear thinking made visible."
    By: Bill Wheeler
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  • "Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."
    By: John Wesley
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  • "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."
    By: Mary Heaton Vorse
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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."
    By: Mark Twain
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  • "A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
    By: Count Leo Tolstoy
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  • "Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
    By: James Thurber
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  • "Writing is the continuation of politics by other means."
    By: Philippe Sollers
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  • "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
    By: Socrates
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  • "Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman."
    By: Nancy Banks Smith
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  • "What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers."
    By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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