Accepting Quote by Evelyn Waugh

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

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

— Sinclair Lewis

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

— Jane Gardam

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or…

— Sara Sheridan

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech