Chosen Quote by Barry Hannah

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

— Anonymous

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

— Albert Camus

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

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

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as…

— Rhianna Pratchett