Authorship

1. He who writes prose builds his temple to fame in rubble;
    he who writes verses builds it in granite.
                                                            -Bulwer-Lytton

2. The pen is the tongue of the mind.
                                                    -Cervantes, Don
                                                         Quixote

3. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
                                                               -Disraeli

4. An incredible itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
                                                        -Juvenal, Satires

5. You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.
                                                                      -Martial

6. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of martyr.
                                                                   -Mohammad, Tribute to 
                                                                              Reason