John Dryden Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
  Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Writing, Spite

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

• And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
  With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

• Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Learning, Wells

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.93

• The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

• Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

  John Dryden

  Father, Writing, Patterns

  1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

• Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Men, May

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.139

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