Cases Quote by Lord Chesterfield

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;…

— Samuel Johnson

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the…

— Sam Esmail

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or…

— Henry Giroux

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers; by them,…

— Percival Stockdale

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut…

— Jane Austen

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story…

— Harlan Ellison

“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing, the writing…

— Roland Barthes

“Adding repulsive language and sex scenes do not make you a great author just because you are trying to relate to your audience.”

— Emily Kamminga

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds,…

— Madame de Stael

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

— Diana Gabaldon