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

— Dr. Johnson

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

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

— Landor

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if …

— Goethe