Footnote Quote by Jane Smiley

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

— Charlotte Bronte

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

— Patricia Duncker

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I never intended to become a writer.

— Richard Selzer

Never pursue literature as a trade.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

— Emma Lazarus

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

I was never a writer.

— Simon Sinek

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never wanted to be a writer.

— Herta Muller

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz