Hawthorne Quote by Ishmael Reed

“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my shirt and…

— Robert Lowell

“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he wanted to…

— Kathy Acker

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever…

— Anonymous

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books…

— John Scott

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

— James A. Michener

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and…

— David Freeman Hawke

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard…

— Brad Paisley

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd

“The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves…

— Milan Kundera

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill