Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them a >>

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. >>

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as >>

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. >>

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public p >>

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Colton, Charles Caleb