Eminent Quotables:
What Writers Say About Writing
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John Adams
John Adams (2)
Edward Albee
Edward Albee (2)
Kingsley Amis
Aristotle
Matthew Arnold
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (2)
Isaac Asimov (3)
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Richard Bach
Gaston Bachelard
Francis Bacon
Russel Baker
Sheridan Baker
James Baldwin
Dave Barry
Robert Benchley
Ugo Betti
Ambrose Bierce
Josh Billings
Lawrence Block
Ray Bradbury
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown (2)
Buffon
Anthony Burgess
George Campbell
Eddie Cantor
Rachel Carson
Truman Capote
Truman Capote (2)
Truman Capote (3)
Thomas Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather
Willa Cather (2)
Willa Cather (3)
Willa Cather (4)
de Chateaubriand
John Cheever
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler (2)
Lord Chesterfield
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (2)
Cicero
Tom Clancy
S.T. Coleridge
Colette
Confucius
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (2)
Robert Cormier
Noel Coward
Michael Crichton
Dante Alighieri
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (2)
Emily Dickinson (3)
Agnes de Mille
Thomas De Quincey
Peter De Vries
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard
E.L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow (2)
Humpty Dumpty
Allan Eckert
Eeyore
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot (2)
T.S. Eliot (3)
Buchi Emecheta
Ralph W. Emerson
Ralph W. Emerson (2)
Ralph W. Emerson (3)
Erasmus
Willard R. Espy
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Edna Ferber
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (2)
Gustave Flaubert (3)
E.M. Forster
Gene Fowler
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (2)
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (2)
Stephen Fry
William Gass
Nikki Giovanni
Goethe
Goethe (2)
Goethe (3)
Theresa Grant
Robert Graves
Graham Greene
Alex Haley
Christopher Hampton
Jack Handy
Thomas Hardy
William Hazlitt
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (2)
Ernest Hemingway (3)
Ernest Hemingway (4)
Andrew Holleran
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Horace
Horace (2)
A.E. Houseman
Langston Hughes
Elbert Hubbbard
Elbert Hubbbard (2)
John Irving
Henry James
Henry James (2)
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (2)
Samuel Johnson (3)
Erica Jong
Juvenal
Lawrence Kasdan
Alfred Kazin
John Keats
John Keats (2)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor (2)
Stephen King
Stephen King (2)
Barbara Kingsolver
Rudyard Kipling
Naoshi Koriyama
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz (2)
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (2)
Anne Lamott (3)
Stephen Leacock
Elmore Leonard
Jack London
Audre Lorde
Archibald MacLeish
Thomas Mann
Steve Martin
Steve Martin (2)
Groucho Marx
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham (2)
W. Somerset Maugham (3)
Guy De Maupassant
Terry McMillan
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (2)
Eve Merriam
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marianne Moore
Christopher Morley
David Morrow
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (2)
John Henry Newman
Anais Nin
Flannery O'Connor
Niyi Osundare
Dorothy Parker
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (2)
Richard North Patterson
Octavio Paz
Plato
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (2)
Alexander Pope
Katherine Ann Porter
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound (2)
Ptahotep
Sir Herbert Read
Rachel Naomi Remen
Sir Ralph Richardson
Muriel Rukeyser
Dr. Seuss
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Sheffield
Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Georges Simeon
Homer Simpson
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Red Smith
Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (2)
Gloria Steinem
Laurence Sterne
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (2)
Wallace Stevens (3)
Mark Strand
William Strunk Jr.
Wislawa Szymborska
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (2)
Dylan Thomas (3)
Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (2)
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (2)
Henry David Thoreau (3)
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (2)
Mark Twain (3)
Mark Twain (4)
Sigrid Undset
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2)
Irving Wallace
H.G. Wells
Eudora Welty
E.B. White
E.B. White (2)
E.B. White (3)
E.B. White (4)
Alfred North Whitehead
John Edge Wideman
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (2)
Oscar Wilde (3)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thomas Wolfe
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (2)
Virginia Woolf (3)
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
William Zinsser