Impeccable Quote by William Hazlitt

“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]…

— Raymond Chandler

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to…

— Margaret Drabble

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“They published their papers, and shouted and waved their arms, and a few canny and deeply thoughtful sci-fi writers wrote up lurid accounts of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be…

— Robert Hilburn

I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels.

— Torrey Peters

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So…

— Junot Diaz

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

— Chuck Berry

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

— Cameron Crowe

“I read and re-read the books I had brought. The quality of the book didn’t matter. What was important was that there was reading…

— Sooyong Park

“What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement?…

— Jonathan Franzen