Affection Quote by Sydney J. Harris

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as…

— Jane Austen

“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.”

— Sara Sheridan

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

“Emerson looked like a Puritan minister, with abrupt cheekbones and a long, bony nose. A man of solitude, he was prone to bouts of…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Anne had wandered down the the Dryard's Bubble and was curled up among the ferns at the root of the n=big white birch where…

— L.M. Montgomery

“His language blends well with conflicting arrogance. David Herbert Lawrence was one writer who convinced me of the need for being plisky towards eliciting…

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far…

— Richard Dawkins

“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they have…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him…

— Aldous Huxley

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings