W-b-yeats Quote by Terry Eagleton

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

— Vanna Bonta

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee

“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

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I have such trouble, getting all these manuscripts every year by the hundreds, and galleys and so on, because you can tell right away…

— Jim Harrison

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

— Alexander Pope

“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”

— Jean Paul Sartre