Advantage Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

— Samuel Johnson

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

— Brad Stone

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can…

— Ludwig von Mises

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut…

— Jane Austen

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as…

— Rod Serling

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner