Incompetent Quote by Angela Carter

“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

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“...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

“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants…

— Franz Kafka

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

“Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written words have an impact that can last…

— Sarah Holman

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no feeling behind…

— Kameron Hurley

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw…

— Karl Ove Knausgård