The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman Quotes By : Boris Pasternak | Added By:
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Quotes By : Jean Cocteau | Added By:
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them Quotes By : W. H. Auden | Added By:
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company Quotes By : Andre Gide | Added By:
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite Quotes By : Unknown | Added By:
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style Quotes By : Isaac Disraeli | Added By:
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning Quotes By : Peter De Vries | Added By:
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power Quotes By : Toni Morrison | Added By:
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think Quotes By : Leo Burnett | Added By:
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies Quotes By : John Cheever | Added By: