Writing Quote by Victor Hugo

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing…

— Victor Hugo

“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

“Rulers craft stories, the ruled listen.”

— Amogh Swamy

“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects; The next best are loved and praised; The next are feared; The next despised: They…

— Tao Te Ching

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound…

— George V Higgins

“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

“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system…

— Robert Musil

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill