General Quote by Amitava Kumar

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

Writers will be judged by what they write.

— Raymond Carver

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and…

— Christopher Nolan

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but…

— Victor Hugo

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views.…

— Justin Cartwright