Gift Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

— Edwidge Danticat

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

— Ernest Hemingway

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

— Tracy K. Smith

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is…

— Leslie Jamison

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

— Pat Conroy

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

— Anthony Doerr

“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.”

— R.S. Guthrie

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

— Karrine Steffans

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us,…

— Wallace Shawn