Ideals Quote by Anonymous

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a…

— Anonymous

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

An author departs; he does not die.

— Anonymous

“A writer's job is never finished.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

— Jorge Luis Borges