Horace Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A picture is a poem without words

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

  Horace

  Writing, Editing, Gains

• Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
  [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

  Horace

  Writing, Foundation, Source

• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

  Writing, Parent, Literature

• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

• The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

  Horace

  Crazy, Writing, Men

• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Horace

  Art, Liars, Lying

• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

• Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

  Horace

  Reading, Writing, Editing

• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

  Horace

  Writing, Secret, Sound

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

• Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
  [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

  Horace

  Writing, Authorship, Ability

• Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
  [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

  Horace

  Writing, Care, Authorship

• Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
  [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
  Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

  Horace

  Mean, Writing, Bears

• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

  Horace

  Art, Reading, Mean

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