Generous man Quote by Peter Hartshorn

“With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“A CEO of a very successful company told him that in the corporate world, to get the kind of high level expertise that was…

— Bob Mayer

“Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the…

— Jon Krakauer

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe 's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character”

— Hosseini