Books Quote by Gore Vidal

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

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

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“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

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White