Brain Quote by John Kennedy Toole

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and…

— David Freeman Hawke

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

— Rupi Kaur

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make…

— Raymond Chandler

“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.”

— Thomas King

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

I'm a conservative classical writer.

— Peter Handke

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman