Artist Quote by William Wordsworth

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great…

— Joseph Addison

“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way…

— Anne Rice

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,…

— Francine Prose

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and…

— William Butler Yeats