Acquire Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein

“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”

— psyche roxas-mendoza

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

— William Faulkner

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“There is this quality esteemed within every good writer. She knows…she knows that truth must be un-sheltered within every human transition phase or stable…

— Dew Platt

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently…

— Samuel Johnson