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Only amateurs
say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not
an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,
mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be
interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving.
But amusing? Never!
-- Edna Ferber
1887-1968, American Author
Writers should
be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
-- Edna Ferber
1887-1968, American Author
Creative
writers are always greater than the causes that they
represent.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
The best way
to become a successful writer is to read good writing,
remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
-- Gene Fowler
1890-1960, American
Journalist, Biographer
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Writing is
easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until
drops of blood form on your forehead.
-- Gene Fowler
1890-1960, American
Journalist, Biographer
Either write
something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Our work is to
present things that are as they are.
-- Frederick II) Frederick
The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia
(1740-1786),
Analogies, it
is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at
home.
-- Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
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