People Quote by Francoise Sagan

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks…

— Aberjhani

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

— Paul McCartney

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.

— Tom Wolfe

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front…

— Elizabeth George