Beauty Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

“It’s important to understand that a writer’s love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically affect the…

— Danielle Rose

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of…

— Peter Mendelsund

“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

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

— Jaume Cabre

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

— Andre Gide

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact…

— Maya Angelou

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson