Acquaintance Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local…

— Renata Adler

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

— Samuel Johnson

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

— Francois Mauriac

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

— Raymond Chandler