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I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking…

— Anton Chekhov

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

— Voltaire

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the…

— Paulo Coelho

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think…

— Terry Pratchett

“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to…

— Félix J. Palma

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

— Storm Jameson

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful…

— Christopher Milne

“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the…

— Edward Abbey

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis