Art Quote by Cynthia Ozick

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on…

— Alexander Smith

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

— Alexander Pope

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson