Pride Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“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

“They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a…

— Ian Caldwell

“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from…

— Shannon L. Alder

“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.”

— Gita Mehta

“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the literature and…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.”

— Chuck Wendig

“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