Subjects Quote by Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he…

— Annie Dillard

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

— Susan Sontag

“For what’s a writer without longing?”

— Eric Arvin

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Anonymous

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you…

— Lee Wyndham

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott