Quote by Kate Fox

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage…

— Fay Weldon

“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

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

“Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success--painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm--is all well and…

— Sophia Dembling

“...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

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status,…

— Ehsan Sehgal

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence…

— Philip Kitcher

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

— Thomas Hobbes