Appreciation Quote by Zane Grey

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

— Philip Levine

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

— Vera Caspary

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

— Melvin Maddocks