Dignity Quote by Andre Maurois

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“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

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to…

— Anne Lamott

“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose in life…

— Susan Waterfield