20th century Quote by Linda Simon

“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been brewing since…

— Hal Duncan

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly…

— Alain de Botton

“This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in some sense…

— George Ella Lyon

“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak…

— Daniel Defoe

“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where…

— Kathleen M. Rodgers

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into…

— Elif Batuman

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the…

— Nat Hentoff

The most original novelist now writing in English.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a…

— Sabina Murray