Books Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or…

— Galt Niederhoffer

“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

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one’s…

— Jessica Zafra

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

“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

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the…

— William Faulkner

“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

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be…

— William Wordsworth