Chestnuts Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.”

— Gustave Flaubert

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

— Joshua Mohr

“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to…

— Candice Millard

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them…

— Cyril Connolly

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury