Adversity Quote by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it…

— Thomas Mann

“Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.”

— Joshua Romqn

“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

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world.…

— Samuel Johnson

“As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair