Crossroads Quote by Flannery O'Connor

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Where is the writer,” he began, “who is unstained by any habits of the human, who is the ideal of everything alien to living,…

— Thomas Ligotti

“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First,…

— Roald Dahl

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a…

— Ismail Kadaré

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

— Victor Hugo

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom