Feelings Quote by Annie Dillard

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

— Katherine Mansfield

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear. but to…

— Anneli Rufus

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

— Ram Dass

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;…

— Samuel Johnson