Action Quote by Eric Hoffer

It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.

— George S. Clason

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those…

— Hilaire Belloc

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will…

— Nikolai Gogol

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they…

— Julie Burchill

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“• “To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few…

— Jared Diamond

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

— William Faulkner

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens