Writing Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when…

— Tom Waits

“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”

— John Ruskin

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon…

— Frederick Douglass

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.”

— Timothy Snyder

“I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs over evil.”

— Erica Cope

“The power of evil was nothing more than a tangible thing, something that given the strength of will, could be broken as easily as…

— Nathan Robinson