Binding Quote by James M. Barrie

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

All my favourite writers have come from humble beginnings.

— Lucy Beaumont

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

— Karrine Steffans

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind…

— Eddie Trunk

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read