As if I were a river, the harsh age changed my course, replaced one life with another, flowing in a different channel and I do not recognize my shores. - Anna Akhmatova

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. - Alexander Pope

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain

If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from. - Sei Sh_nagon

How can you write if you can't cry? - Ring Lardner

We are citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. - Woodrow Wilson

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The oldest, shortest words - yes and no - are those which require the most thought. - Pythagorus

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway

Rule youth well, for age will rule itself. - Scottish Proverb

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble, he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Bulwer Lytton

This world is a comedy to whose who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Horace Walpole