Awareness Quote by F. R. Leavis

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major…

— F. R. Leavis

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see…

— Doris Lessing

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

— Mary Russell Mitford

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop