Authorship Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

“. . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market your writing skills, your wonderful…

— Terry Kennedy

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants…

— Virginia Woolf

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

— Anonymous

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in…

— Stephen King

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

— Flannery O'Connor

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

— Samuel Johnson

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk