Useless Quote by Raymond Chandler

“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

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided.…

— Samuel Johnson

“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too often and…

— Orson Scott Card

“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is slowly becoming…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“...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

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin