Great writers Quote by Havelock Ellis

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable…

— Robertson Davies

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice,…

— J. D. Salinger

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

— Barbara Pym

“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

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee