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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Of so much force are system and connection. [Lat., Tantum series juncturaque pollet.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (242) Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (309) Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (38) Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (388) I (i.e. my writings) shall be consigned to that part of the town where they sell incense, and scents, and pepper, and whatever is wrapped up in worthless paper. [Lat., Deferar in vicum vendentem thus et odores, Et piper, et quicquid chartis amicitus ineptis.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (bk. II, I, 269) But every little busy scibbler now Swells with the prasies which he gives himself; And, taking sanctuary in the crowd, Brags of this impudence, and scorns to mend. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Of the Art of Poetry (475) Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 10, 72) Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 4, 12) He that writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than is friends; there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drested. - Sir Robert Howard The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation. - Washington Irving Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. - Douglas William Jerrold Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") He [Milton] was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock, but could not cut heads out of cherry stones. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), according to Hannah More Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine, with reflected light,--with light borrowed from the ancients. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The wickedness of a loose or profane author, in his writings, is more atrocious than that of the giddy libertine or drunken ravisher; not only because it extends its effects wider (as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught), but because it is committed with cool deliberation. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson There are two things which I am confident I can do very well; one one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Preface to Dictionary Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Prologue on the Opening of the Drury Lane Theatre Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader. - Joseph Joubert Displaying page 5 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9
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