Art Quote by Charles Bukowski

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the…

— Don DeLillo

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when…

— Chuck Wendig

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

— Honore de Balzac

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson