Adventure Quote by Joseph Conrad

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend, For each…

— Alexander Pope

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk…

— Andre Dubus

“A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees…

— Azar Nafisi

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty dignity of…

— Nikolai Gogol

“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.”

— P.G. Wodehouse