Writing Quote by Philip Roth

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others; respect for…

— Bertrand Russell

“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything…

— Barista Uno

“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light.…

— Barista Uno

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” he wrote. “I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“A man is never an individual unless he is possessed by a desire so deep that it is deeper than life, so deep that…

— Osho

“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of life and…

— Milan Kundera

“This book was written under the umbrella of self-acceptance. The sooner we are okay with being different from one another, the sooner we can…

— Becky Murphy

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who…

— Eudora Welty