Age Quote by George Orwell

“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by…

— George Orwell

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A…

— Zelda Popkin

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

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

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a…

— Sabaa Tahir

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez