Books Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.”

— A. Saleh

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve discovered is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is…

— Italo Calvino

“Money and arrogance have the power to write tales of oppression, and the pen has the power to turn those tales into history, so…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“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

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is…

— Terry Eagleton

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Writing hasn’t changed a thing; when the writer puts down the pen, no matter how lucid or brutally honest his insights may have been,…

— Maggie Nelson