Staten Island Advance - Writers

Famous quotes containing the word writers:

“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when ‘tis safely got ‘tis worth the winning.
The worst of ‘t is we now and then detect ‘em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect ‘em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (1787–1874)

“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)

“Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)