Books Quote by George Saunders

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

“the starting place for any powerful story must be the author himself. If a story doesn’t resonate first and foremost with you, why believe…

— K.M. Weiland

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion