Beauty Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he…

— Andre Maurois

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying…

— Anonymous

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous…

— Jacob Lawrence

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and…

— Roald Dahl

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what…

— Leo Rosten

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

— Walt Whitman

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald