Acceptance speech Quote by John Steinbeck

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to…

— John Steinbeck

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

“They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Profound changes are imminent in the ancient craft of the beautiful.”

— Jason Lazarus

“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

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these…

— Mark Twain

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is a good lesson--though it may often be a hard one--for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck

“If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we…

— Alain de Botton