Brother Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that…

— Fernando Pessoa

The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other;…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend, For each…

— Alexander Pope

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man…

— Joseph Addison

The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

“Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman,…

— Ernest Cline

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

— Ambrose Bierce

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche