Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Writing

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

Ambrose Bierce

Book, Writing, Perfect

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Thinking, People

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.249, tredition

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Ambrose Bierce

Book, Writing, Religion

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Writing, Blank

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Nonsense

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Views

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Light, Editors

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.133, 谷月社

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Character, Science

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.78, 谷月社

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Bird, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)