Books Quote by A.C. Quinn

“The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure,…

— Mary Antin

“To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The story goes…

— John Steinbeck

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

— Walter Benjamin

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.”

— Rowan K. Lake Jr

“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very…

— Philip Gourevitch

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolaño