Comparison Quote by Jonathan Ames

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

— Richard Bach

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

— John Gimlette

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

— Brad Listi

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child…

— Mary Karr

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even…

— Cynthia Ozick

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and…

— William Butler Yeats

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

— William Styron