Creativity Quote by Chaim Potok

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His…

— Wallace Stegner

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in…

— Anonymous

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like…

— Mary Pilon