Creator Quote by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had…

— Richard Russo

“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

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

— Thomas Carlyle

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

— Don DeLillo

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge;…

— Samuel Johnson

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his…

— Anonymous