Afternoon Quote by Angela Carter

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

— Mary Augusta Ward

There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually…

— Michio Kaku

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers…

— William Gibson

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and…

— William Butler Yeats

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might…

— George Saunders

“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men…

— Frederick Douglass

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

— Theodor Adorno

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka