Anthony Trollope Quotes About Writing
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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