Daily discipline Quote by Bruce Van Horn

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

— Patricia Wentworth

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had -…

— Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends…

— Sylvia Plath

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq