Chosen Quote by Graham Greene

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find…

— Richard Schickel

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his…

— Alfred Kazin

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“In an era of rapid change, Ive understood that style has a corrosive effect on design, making a product seem old before its time.…

— Leander Kahney

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character”

— Hosseini

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

“What they all shared was optimism, openness to experimentation, a love of storytelling, a need to collaborate, and an instinct to think with their…

— Tim Brown

You develop a style from writing a lot.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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