All time Quote by Daniel Mendelsohn

“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.”

— Dennis R. Miller

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of…

— Sarah Vowell

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in…

— Michael Ondaatje

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

— Arthur Schnitzler

“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover Themselves", "People…

— Orson Scott Card

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

— Kedar Joshi

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done…

— Hermann Hesse

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of…

— Timothy Keller