Should Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

Every writer has to write his speech.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

— Truman Capote