Famous Quotes by Writers

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe quotes are simply something we cannot resist. Here is our large and GROWING page for all Poe quotes. A few years ago we republished one of Poe’s classic works on writing, and it had such a huge response, we decided to start a quotes page. These quotes are mostly based on writing, but you may find some non-writing related quotes here to.

Poe is one of those writers who is a cornerstone of horror writing, and we look to him in his quotes and writing to lead us to be better writing. Even if you are not a writer you will love these quotes. They offer a window into the mind of a great name in American History.

Poe helped define the short story, really the only American literary art form. From about 1837 to 1849 Poe’s writing began making its way around the country and the world. For this short period Poe was able to witness his impact, but there is no way he had any idea that over 150 years later we would be, at times, obsessive about his writing. Every school district still teaches some story or poem written by Poe.

Being that we are a site for writers by writers, we took the liberty to collect (at least a few) of Poe’s Quotes and put them on shareable slides. We will add new ones every now and again. So please stop back for updates.

Also, please leave your favorite Poe quotes in the comments. We are always looking for new and interesting words from the master of the macabre.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind. ~Edgar Allan Poe

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. -Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were–I have not seen
As others saw–I could not bring
My passion from a common spring–
-Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

An Immortal instinct, deep within the spirit of man, is thus, plainly, a sense of the Beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality…~Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectibility. ~Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ~Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuchas it excites, by elevating the soul. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer ~Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep, those little slices of death…~Edgar Allan Poe

Without a certain continuity of effort-without a certain duration of repetition of purpose-the soul is never deeply moved. ~Edgar Allan Poe

We are big fans of Jane around here, and in our effort to bring you more about writers and writing, we are putting up some of her quotes. We tried to focus on quotes about writing, and we added a few that we thought were insightful about the human condition, as Jane always was.

Here are our Oscar Wilde Quotes. We are happy to bring them to you. Yes we love Oscar Wilde’s writing. You really can’t ask for a more prolific and insightful writer, and his quotes to speak to the human condition in the same way. He has many amazing quotes, but we’ve picked these 10 as some that we like the most. We are not saying these are the best quotes (don’t send emails). We are just saying we like these quotes a lot. Please share them. Here are our Quotes by Oscar Wilde we hope you like them:

Are is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. -Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front. -Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. -Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything. and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. -Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but misprint. -Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go;others whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde

No great artists ever sees things as they really are. if he did, he would cease to be an artist. -Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -Oscar Wilde

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde

Leave us a comment to tell us what you think of our Oscar Wilde quotes. We will keep adding to them. Check back often.

Welcome to our William Shakespeare quotes page. These Shakespeare quotes are easily usable on your phone. If you press and hold any of these images, then click copy, you can paste them into your messages and send them to friends. We will add more of these quotes to this page over time. Shakespeare if of course one of the most quoted authors in history. We’ve collected some of his best known quotes here so you can share them with your friends.

Shakespeare’s first play was believe to have been published in 1591, and he died in 1616. For 25 years Shakespeare play were sought after, and after his death we all know how famous his works are know. Most schools across the world still teaching at least one of Shakespeare’s plays. One of the reasons his plays and poems are still so popular is that his lines speak to every situation. His quotes tell us about ourselves. These quotes, as with all of Shakespeare quotes, address our nature. We’ve picked quotes on this page that are sure to be responses to different situations in your life, and in the lives of others. We hope you find them useful.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! ― William Shakespeare

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. William Shakespeare

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare

As a reminder, simply hold down on the image, copy, and then paste it into your text messages. Leave us a comment to tell us what you think about the style of our new quotes. Also stop back often for new Shakespeare quotes.

Mark Twain Quotes

We thought we would put together what we think are Top 10 Mark Twain quotes. Now we know there are a lot of quotes out there, and these might not be your best of the best, but we felt they represent a broad swath of Twain’s ideas. We put them on simple color backgrounds so you can pin them, or put them on Facebook. Just something to do for writers others, while we wait for spring to become, well spring. Twain is one of the best wordsmiths ever to put a pen to paper. He was always full or clever quotes and awesome observations about human nature. We are excited to bring you these 10 quotes. In the future we will bring you other quotes from writers.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back when it begins to rain.

-Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. . Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -Mark Twain

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. -Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -Mark Twain

This last one is a picture taken from our stock photos her at EWR. Use these around the web, if you see fit. All of these quotes, we think, speak to some of the best of what Mark Twain represented.

Also, we’ve started to created some Youtube movies our these quotes. They are quick and easy, take a look.

So we thought we would put together the 1000 Greatest Writer’s Quotes of all time. Then I got lazy. It’s harder than it looks gathering up all these quotes. Finding the ones that are “best.” Finding the ones that are most telling about writing and writers. Anyway, I thought I would just ask you guys to help. It’s too much you know, to do all by myself.

So, if you would please, drop your favorite writing quote about writing by a writer in the comments, and I WILL add them to the list 100 at a time. Once we get to 100 more quotes I will add them to this list. Please help. Just you know, find your favorite quote, and add it.

Also, I made this nifty graphic up there, it’s so you can share it and tell people to help me to come up with 1000 quotes, please!

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen King

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Mark Twain

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert Frost

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
William Faulkner

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray Bradbury

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Stephen King

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut,

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
Ernest Hemingway

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann,

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Charles Dickens

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
Sylvia Plath

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

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