Composition Quote by Laurence Sterne

“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics. His vocation…

— Carola Giedion-Welcker

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

— Christopher Moore

“He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing…

— Ricardo Piglia

“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and raw, uncalculated…

— Rick Atkinson

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to…

— Kerima Polotan

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what…

— Paul Auster

“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

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

— Roy Blount, Jr