Art Quote by William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian…

— William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It…

— William Faulkner

“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother,…

— William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

— William Faulkner

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local…

— Renata Adler

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“yet, I have spent my literary career writing loving odes to my drunken and unreliable father. I have, in a spectacular show of hypocrisy,…

— Sherman Alexie

“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

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“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