States Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Erica Jong

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most…

— Amy Bloom

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

— John le Carre

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and…

— Ray McKinnon

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

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

— Richard Hugo

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

— Alexander Pope