Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard

“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

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by…

— Patrick O'Brian

“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God…

— M.V. Carey

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.”

— Eric Maisel

“I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.  This…

— John Bunyan