Books Quote by Aldous Huxley

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the…

— J. M. Coetzee

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large…

— David McCullough

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or…

— Sara Sheridan

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs