Experts Quote by John le Carre

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

— Ambrose Bierce

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to…

— Isaac D'Israeli

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

— Umberto Eco

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great…

— Erskine Caldwell

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor