Belief Quote by Flannery O'Connor

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

— Marilynne Robinson

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing…

— Richard Dooling

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with…

— Herman Melville

I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what…

— Henry Parry Liddon

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must…

— Henry Miller

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the…

— Anonymous

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

— Wilbur Smith