Been Quote by Stacy Schiff

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write…

— George Saintsbury

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk,…

— Leon Uris

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the…

— Jessie Burton

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end…

— Stephen King

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories…

— Judith Viorst

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have…

— Alan Dean Foster