Needs Quote by David Mitchell

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

— Orhan Pamuk

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong…

— Doris Lessing

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

— Virginia Woolf

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott