Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition.…

— Paul Di Filippo

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

— Richard K. Morgan

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

— Omari Hardwick

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to…

— Jay IDK

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life,…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson