"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."

Auden, W. H. | Writers and Writing | 5 bookmarks

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

Baldwin, James | Writers and Writing | 3 bookmarks

"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."

Twain, Mark | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."

Wilde, Oscar | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."

Hutchens, John K. | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

Woolf, Virginia | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 2 bookmarks

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 5 bookmarks

"Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Thoreau, Henry David | Passion | 3 bookmarks

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Thoreau, Henry David | Present | 4 bookmarks