If You Wish To Be A Writer Write

"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."

"“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”"

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it."