Writing
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter Blaise Pascal
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it William Randolph Hearst
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. Elbert Hubbard
Better to write for yourself and have no public, then to write for the public and have no self Cyril Connolly
When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man Blaise Pascal
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears Edith Wharton
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one William Strunk
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors Benjamin Franklin
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A first edition of his work is a rarity, but a second is rarer still Franklin Pierce Adams