Life Quote by Martin Amis

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them…

— Cyril Connolly

“Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard…

— Susan Sonntag

In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new…

— Laura van den Berg

“The greatest things in life are usually accomplished by ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things.”

— Anonymous

“Discover who you truly are and fully give every aspect of your uniqueness to the world. This is your path to an extraordinary life.”

— James McWhinney

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment…

— Kathleen Raine