Extraordinary Quote by Lytton Strachey

“Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.”

— Walter Besant

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an…

— George Saunders

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories…

— Greg Bear

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

Writers have superpowers.

— Cynthia Hand

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk,…

— Leon Uris

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

— Florence King

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow