Books Quote by Donald E. Westlake

“For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this…

— Adolf Hitler

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

— William Saroyan

“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more…

— Richard Ford

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at all of…

— Michael Korda

“Bad writing is better than no writing.”

— Dina Santorelli

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Charles Bukowski

“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”

— Anonymous