Books Quote by Randall Jarrell

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

— Boris Pasternak

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing…

— Chuck Klosterman

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it…

— Mordecai Richler

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman