Smallest Quote by Samuel Butler

I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson…

— Lydia Davis

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

— Sophie Hannah

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

— Tom Stoppard

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

— Andre Aciman

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day