Authorship - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3520<![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length; Nor lift your ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3521<![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3522<![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3523<![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524<![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3525<![CDATA[None but an author knows an author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3526<![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads, Till authors hear at length one general ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3527<![CDATA[So that the jest is clearly to be seen, Not in the words--but in the gap between; Manner is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3528<![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3529<![CDATA[No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3530<![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531<![CDATA[The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3507<![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3508<![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509<![CDATA[Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3510<![CDATA[The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3511<![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3512<![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513<![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514<![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515<![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516<![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517<![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518<![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3519