1947 Quote by Fritz Leiber

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He thinks and speaks with a ruthlessness that makes no attempt to find dialectical excuses for the eternal uncertainty of humankind. Anyone who claims…

— Juli Zeh

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the…

— Pindar

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion,…

— John Steinbeck

“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt. For Rat Kiley,…

— Tim O'Brien

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

“There's a part of a book that never lies. A writer puts his soul into a book. Every word is two sides of a…

— Sam Mills Black Out