Fan Writer

Famous quotes containing the words fan and/or writer:

“A matchmaker after a wedding is like a fan after autumn.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Every writer is necessarily a critic—that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.... The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg—nine-tenths of him is under water.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)