Causes Quote by E. M. Forster

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even…

— Gena Rowlands

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing left to…

— Jack Freestone

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and…

— David Hare

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

— Hilary Mantel