Alive Quote by Eudora Welty

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

— Anthony Burgess

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did…

— Milan Kundera

“If the author shows no tears while writing their tale, neither will the person who reads it.”

— P.l.n