Book Quote by Anthony Burgess

I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth…

— Clive Barnes

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the…

— Eudora Welty

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing…

— Walter Mosley

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly