Books Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Sam Shepard is a brilliant writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us…

— Thomas King

A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the…

— Gulzar

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a pet subject…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The…

— William Saroyan

“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.”

— Yefon Isabelle

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page.”

— Edmond Rostand