The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cromier

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- T.S. Eliot

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Solomon Short

When you take stuff from one writer, it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner

Any fool can write, but it takes wisdom to know how to erase.
- Rabbi Israel Salanter

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

- Winston Churchill

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
-Ishmael Reed

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
- Neil Gaiman

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
- Stephen Hawking

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
- Stephen Hawking

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
- Chateaubriand François-Renè

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton