Bigger Quote by Charles R. Jackson

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business…

— Virginia Woolf

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to…

— Robert Henri

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he…

— Elizabeth Bowen

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item,…

— Anais Nin

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who…

— Loreth Anne White