Hard work Quote by David Alejandro Fearnhead

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.”

— Rae Carson

“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“This illusion of work is fatal. It wastes your time, makes you think that you’re doing something worthy when you’re not, and doesn’t do…

— Vishal Ostwal

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.”

— Mark Rubinstein