Ability Quote by Kin Hubbard

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good…

— William Monahan

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The…

— Walter Moers

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the…

— John Hodgman

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Bad literature is a form of treason.

— Joseph Brodsky

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka