Subjects Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

— Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that…

— Peter York

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a…

— Robert Morgan

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

— Stephen King

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

— Rose Tremain