Books Quote by Cleveland Amory

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill,…

— P. D. James

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was…

— C. S. Lewis

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

— Mike Tyson

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and…

— Nicholson Baker

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo