Beauty Quote by Gabriela Weiner

“Thomas Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Molière, tasting society, turned to…

— Ray Bradbury

“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,…

— Francine Prose

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“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

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has…

— Franz Grillparzer

“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly. Only minor…

— Adam Kirsch

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write.…

— Eudora Welty

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the…

— Rex Stout

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use…

— Mo Yan

“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with metaphors? Writers…

— Sherman Alexie