Books Quote by Flannery O'Connor

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

“An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.”

— Rowan K. Lake Jr

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of…

— Junot Diaz

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source…

— Flannery O'Connor

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

— Ian Rankin

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.”

— Irwin Shaw

“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women…

— Anne Lamott