Great writers Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we…

— Martin Amis

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about.…

— Harry Crews

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin