Former Quote by Samuel Johnson

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

— Sean Astin

The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting…

— Harlan Ellison

“People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.”

— Ann Tatlock

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

— Will Self

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

— Elizabeth Janeway

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

— Alain de Botton

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

— Arthur Schopenhauer