Art Quote by George Orwell

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

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

— David Brin

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

— Don Pendleton

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a…

— Tift Merritt

We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department -…

— Pankaj Mishra

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson