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Let authors write for glory or reward, Truth is well paid, when she is sung and heard.
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Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
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Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
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Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen–for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.
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Look in thy heart and write.
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Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things.
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Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine, with reflected light,–with light borrowed from the ancients.
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My stories run up and bite me in the leg–I respond by writing them down – everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal–partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.
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Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader.
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Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
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No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n’a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.]
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this sell-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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None but an author knows an author’s cares, Or Fancy’s fondness for the child she bears.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing goes by luck in composition; it allows of no trick. The best you can write will be the best you are. Every sentence is the result of a long probation. The author’s character is read from title-page to end.
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