To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
— Buffon
Good writing requires the integration of intellect, soul, and taste—thinking, feeling, and rendering combined.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make anew things familiar and familiar things new.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of an author, are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
— Dr. Johnson
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
— Ernest Hemingway
“Last Supper,” he was chided for standing hours before the canvas without making a stroke. He replied: “When I pause the…
— PATRIOTISM
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are ; the turbid seem the most profound.
— Landor
