Listening Quote by John K. Samson

No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really…

— John K. Samson

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation…

— Jim Thompson

I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world…

— Joe Morton

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given:…

— Robert Walser

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them…

— Cyril Connolly

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

— Wole Soyinka

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller