Book Quote by Doris Lessing

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had -…

— Doris Lessing

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate…

— Criss Jami

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do…

— Saul Bellow

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford