The most important thing a writer can have [is] the…

Loneliness is only for those strong enough to bear it.

— Andrew Cervantes

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is…

— Francine Prose

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their…

— Mel Brooks

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material.…

— George Carlin

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or…

— Anonymous

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs…

— Steve Allen

To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future…

— Pat O'Shea

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

— Gunter Grass