Art Quote by V. S. Naipaul Download Open image “Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.” — V. S. Naipaul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Biographies Done Great Great writing History Writing
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image