Dies Quote by Joy Williams

One becomes great by what one reads and not by what one writes

— Ritu Ghatourey

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read…

— Alice Munro

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most…

— Garrison Keillor

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the…

— J. M. Coetzee

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are…

— Dorothea Brande

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