Pace Quote by Donna Tartt

“But in the end, it isn’t up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.”

— Nicole Krauss

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay.…

— Mark Haddon

But I've got a plan. Why don't you be the artist And make me out of clay. Why don't you be the writer And…

— Ellie Goulding

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom…

— Paul Robeson

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of…

— Northrop Frye

I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh, no.' Sometimes,…

— Tom King

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that…

— George Saunders

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be…

— Frederick Busch

I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like, say, a…

— James Ivory

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides