Advice Quote by Douglas William Jerrold

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

— Howard Jacobson

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested…

— Edward Gibbon

Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which…

— Lionel Shriver

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

— Alberto Manguel

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes,…

— Ernest Hemingway

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

— Julien Green

“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he…

— United Nations

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl