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

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

— Landor

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

When Abraham Lincoln was introduced to author Harriet Beecher Stowe, he reportedly said that she was “the little woman w…

— Abraham Lincoln

Talentalonecannotmakeawriter; there mustbeamanbehindthebook.

— Emerson