Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but read more

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read more

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.