Life Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever…”

— Lisa Jones

“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Ron Parham

“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead…

— Norma Fox Mazer

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of…

— James Rozoff

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?”

— J.M. Coetzee