Arrogance Quote by Bono

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

— Vanna Bonta

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

— Jeanette Winterson

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

— Vera Caspary

Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore…

— Laura Lippman

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself…

— Voltaire

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance…

— Gore Vidal