Color Quote by William Faulkner

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives…

— Edward Abbey

“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.”

— David B. Lentz

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

— Bradley Sands

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people…

— Carl Henegan

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan