Writing
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Cervantes
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
- Colette
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
- Connolly, Cyril
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
- Horace
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
- Marquis, Donald R.
Syllables govern the world.
- Selden, John
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- Shaw, George Bernard
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
- Shaw, George Bernard
