Samuel Butler Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

  Samuel Butler

  Book, Writing, Want

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Cat, Men

  "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Part VII: On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books)". Book edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1917.

• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Men, Years

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4167, Delphi Classics

• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Drained

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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