Writing Quote by Alice Hoffman

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn’t quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn’t love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who…

— John Hersey

“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”

— David Malouf

“DeBow’s Review noted with contempt. “It is a melancholy exemplification of the facility with which a philanthropist, who devotes himself exclusively to the eradication…

— Brenda Wineapple

“On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at the prospect…

— Henry James

“Giles' shameful death was, of course, the sign of a crazy old man's inability to adapt to a new world. But his belief, that…

— Philippa Gregory

“Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”

— Richard Matheson

“He radiated a calm focus--like he knew who he was and where he was going. He was a steady mooring in a sea of…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Instead he felt only love. And that was the miracle. The surge in hatred since the war began had created more love around it.…

— Kathy Hepinstall

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what…

— Paul Auster