Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they…

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and…

— Lars von Trier

Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks…

— Isak Dinesen

“Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.”

— Hari Kunzru

“In the material world below, she always felt lonely and there was nobody to understand her true nature. She always knew that she didn’t…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes,…

— Anonymous

It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for…

— Nick Cave

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you…

— Douglas Bond

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your…

— Peter Abrahams