The two most engaging powers of an author are to make anew things familiar and familiar things new.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

— Johann W. von Goethe

Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are ; the turbid seem the most profound.

— Landor