Writing: A is an affectation and is not calculated to impress an editor favorably. There is no more reason why a writer should sign a fictitious name to his work, than for a painter to do so with his canvases or for John Smith to put the name of Roderick Random over the store where he sells pork and molasses. ~James Knapp Reeve

Writing: A catless writer is almost inconceivable; even Ernest Hemingway, manly follower of the hunting trophy and the bullfight, lived waist-deep in cats. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ~Barbara Holland

Writing: A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Writing: A good author dances on typewriter keys. ~Terri Guillemets

Writing: A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton

Writing: A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham