Architect Quote by John Dos Passos

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

— John Dos Passos

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

— Wilfrid Sheed

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

“Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen…

— Anonymous

“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.”

— Sharanya Haridas

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

— Adam Conover

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

— Ruskin Bond

You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it…

— Russell Banks