Great Writers Quotes

“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection .”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.”
― Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.”
― Scott William Carter

“Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The true measure of genius is in what measure the world he has created is his own, one that has not been here before him (at least, here, in literature) and, even more important, how plausible he has succeeded in making it.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature

“Great gurus are not great writers, but great writers are great gurus!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No writer is great unless he also has the knack of stirring up associations in his readers' minds with every phrase.”
― Lloyd N. Trefethen, TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS