Concerns Quote by Claire Messud

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often character­ized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a seeming dilemma…

— Lyn Hejinian

“There are only three truths. That which can be known. That which can never be known. The third, which concerns the writer alone, truly…

— Miguel Syjuco

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...]…

— Anonymous

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate…

— James Thurber

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked -…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid