Atmosphere Quote by Barry Lopez

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

— David Mamet

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and…

— Roger Angell

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part…

— Jane Hirshfield

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith