Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

E. B. White

The best writing is rewriting.

E. B. White

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

E. B. White

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

E. B. White

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

E. B. White

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,