Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Pete Johnson

We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more.

John le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

Henry David Thoreau

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.