Offers Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great…

— Erskine Caldwell

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster