Accomplishment Quote by Philip Kitcher

The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this…

— Peter Handke

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status,…

— Ehsan Sehgal

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

“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

“To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary…

— Marcus G Monroe

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different…

— Molly Antopol

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott