Writing

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
– Walter Bagehot

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

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."
-François-René de Chateaubriand

"Easy reading is damned hard writing."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne