Books Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Writers need each other.

— Sara Sheridan

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always…

— Leila Slimani

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,…

— Tillie Olsen

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem