Books Quote by Eleanor Brown

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

“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

“And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we…

— Wayne Elise

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He started to do that, started to inform me of everything; the inconsequential, the meaningful; conversations that ended in a cul-de-sac of unanswerable rhetoric.…

— Sarah Winman

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

“He’d read a shitload of stupid things, in fact, and most of them were probably just made up by stupid novelists trying to make…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Julia Joanne Black

“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for…

— Frank McCourt