Believe Quote by Frederick Locker-Lampson

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable…

— Karl Wiggins

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“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

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that…

— Horace