Great English Writers Quotes

#1. Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

May-Britt Moser

#2. I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

Daniel Alarcon

#3. A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Winston Churchill

#5. A writer who wants to write good stuff needs to read great stuff. If you don't read widely, or read only writers in fashion at the moment, you'll have a limited idea of what can be done with the English language.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.

Karen Russell

#7. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

Elliott Colla

#9. I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. And finally, there's the seventh doorway, the Doorway of Oneness, which corresponds to the crown center, located at the top of the head. This doorway has to do with feeling whole and connected to all of life, connected to spirit

Marci Shimoff

#11. Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

Camilla Lackberg

#12. In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

Gene Luen Yang

#13. I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

Jane Lindskold

#14. It is better to play than do nothing.

Confucius

#15. I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

Thomas H. Cook

#16. An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies

Hassan Hanafi

#17. Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

John Maynard Keynes