Anthony Trollope Quotes about Writing

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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

Anthony Trollope

Writing, Editors, Habit

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.117, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

Writing, Men, Three

'Autobiography' (1883) ch. 15

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

Education, Reading, Writing

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers”, p.238, Anthony Trollope

Easy reading requires hard writing.

Anthony Trollope

Reading, Writing, Easy

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Kept in the Dark: Trollope's Works”, p.149, 谷月社

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Anthony Trollope

Book, Writing, Men

Anthony Trollope (2014). “The Landleaguers”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Anthony Trollope

Art, Writing, Snakes

Anthony Trollope (1871). “Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser”, p.425

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Anthony Trollope

Book, Writing, Men

Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (1996). “An autobiography”, Penguin Group USA

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Anthony Trollope

Writing, Twenties, World

Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope

Nature, Spring, Writing

Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography: and Other Writings”, p.159, OUP Oxford