Literary - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25236<![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237<![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25238<![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239<![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25240<![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234<![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235<![CDATA[From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25226<![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227<![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25228<![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25229<![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25230<![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25231<![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25232<![CDATA['That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25233<![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25219<![CDATA[Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25220<![CDATA[It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25221<![CDATA[I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25222<![CDATA[If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25223<![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25224<![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25225<![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25218<![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17222<![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16357<![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735<![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8619<![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5281<![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3353<![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3260<![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244<![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3226<![CDATA[Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3222<![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223<![CDATA[I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3153