Philosopher Quote by Emile M. Cioran

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

— Ted Sizer

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus…

— Allan W. Eckert

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks