The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It...
Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.
Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, a...
Write until your idea becomes reality.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession wh...
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
I write because it's a beautiful habit
Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.
The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people. Only we realize in truth that in order to improve the quality of literat...
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.