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{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1773)

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1776)

{{Hoyt quote | num = 18 | text = Tenet insanabile multo Scribendi cacoethes, et asgro in corde senescit. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. Juvenal—Satires. VII. 51. | note = | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 19 | text = Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity. | author = Charles Lamb | work = Bon Mots by Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold. | note = Ed. by Walter Jerrold. | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 20 | text = To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. | author = George Henry Lewes | work = The Spanish Drama. | place = Ch. III. | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. | author = Longfellow | work = Hyperion. | place = Bk. I. Ch. V. | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait! | author = Longfellow | work = Hyperion. | place = Bk. I. Ch. VIII. | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 23 | text = Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. | author = Longfellow | work = Morituri Sahctamus. L. 168. | note = | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 24 | text = Look, then, into thine heart and write! | author = Longfellow | work = Voices of the Night. | place = Prelude. St. 19. | topic = Authorship | page = 49 }}