Events Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is…

— Barun Sobti

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield