Known Quote by Lillian Hellman

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen…

— Stone Gossard

Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.

— Ian Rankin

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

— Michael Pena

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written,…

— Norton Juster

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

— William Hazlitt

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The most original novelist now writing in English.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett