Quote by Alison Lurie

“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.”

— Ayn Rand

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

“I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on…

— Sylvia Plath

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Charles Bukowski

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.”

— Stacy Schiff

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough”

— Josh Hanagarne

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“One of the first discoveries of his captivity was that interest in 'news' does not spring from genuine curiosity, but from the desire for…

— Evelyn Waugh

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard