Writing

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.... 
Charles Dickens

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. 
Christopher Hampton

A word is dead when it is said, some say; I say it just begins to live that day. 
Emily Dickenson

"An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of the afterward." 
F. Scott Fitzgerald 

"Easy reading is damned hard writing."
Nathaniel Hawthorne