Alternative Quote by Colum McCann

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

— Richard Flanagan

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt -…

— Harry Oppenheimer

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put,…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The…

— Anders Holm

“You can always tell the quality of an author by their cover picture. Bad writers bear an idiotic smile on the inside flap. Great…

— Bauvard

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

— Ernest Hemingway

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about…

— Terry Pratchett

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

— John Krasinski