Makers Quote by V. S. Pritchett

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

— Michelle Dean

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

“Stories are rarely only stories”

— Chris Womersley

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

— James Lasdun

Writers are only rarely likable.

— Joan Didion

I never intended to become a writer.

— Richard Selzer

Rarely do heroine-oriented films happen in the film industry.

— Shamna Kasim

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

— Anonymous

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound