I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.Writers and WritingQuotations by Truman Capote
Year: 2008
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them. Samuel Butler
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.Quotations by Samuel Butler
The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The pen is mightier than the sword.Writers and WritingQuotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.Writers and WritingQuotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Jean De La Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.Writers and WritingQuotations by Jean De …
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!Writers and WritingQuotations by Robert Browning
Great writers are the saints for the godless. Anita Brookner
Great writers are the saints for the godless.Writers and WritingQuotations by Anita Brookner
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. Catherine Drinker Bowen
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.Writers and WritingQuotations by Catherine Drinker Bowen
A book should be luminous not voluminous. Christian Nevell Bovee
A book should be luminous not voluminous.Writers and WritingQuotations by Christian Nevell Bovee
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. Nicholas Boileau
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.Writers and WritingQuotations by Nicholas Boileau
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. Nicholas Boileau
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.Writers and WritingQuotations by Nicholas Boileau
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. Thomas Berger
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.Writers and WritingQuotations by Thomas Berger
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. Arnold Bennett
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.Writers and WritingQuotations by Arnold Bennett
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. Robert Benchley
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.Writers and WritingQuotations by Robert Benchley
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. Robert Benchley
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.Writers and WritingQuotations by Robert Benchley
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac. Saul Bellow
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.Writers and WritingQuotations by Saul Bellow
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.Writers and WritingQuotations by James Baldwin
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.Writers and WritingQuotations by Walter Bagehot
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. Richard Bach
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.Writers and WritingQuotations by Richard Bach
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster. Isaac Asimov
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.Writers and WritingQuotations by Isaac Asimov
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. Margaret Anderson
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.Writers and WritingQuotations by Margaret Anderson
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. Denis Waitley
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.WorthQuotations by Denis Waitley
When the well’s dry, they know the worth of water. Source Unknown
When the well’s dry, they know the worth of water.WorthQuotations by Source Unknown
Nothing is worth making that does not make the man. Source Unknown
Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.WorthQuotations by Source Unknown
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. Henry David Thoreau
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.WorthQuotations by Henry David Thoreau
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. Elias Schwartz
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.WorthQuotations by Elias Schwartz
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.WorthQuotations by George Santayana
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.WorthQuotations by Will Rogers
We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry. Scottish Proverb
We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.WorthQuotations by Scottish Proverb
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us. Earl Nightingale
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us.WorthQuotations by Earl Nightingale
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. Lin-Chi
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.WorthQuotations by Lin-Chi
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. Robert Green Ingersoll
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.WorthQuotations by Robert Green Ingersoll
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.WorthQuotations by Henry Fielding
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.WorthQuotations by Thomas A. Edison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.WorthQuotations by Charles Dickens
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Lord Chesterfield
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.WorthQuotations by Lord Chesterfield
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.WorthQuotations by Henry Ward Beecher
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.WorthQuotations by Pearl Bailey
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. Iris Murdoch
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.WorshipQuotations by Iris Murdoch
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.WorshipQuotations by Calvin Coolidge