Egoism Quote by George Orwell

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

— John Cheever

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

— James Salter

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”

— Jess Walter

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

— Harlan Coben

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Lauren Groff

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To…

— Laurie Sheck

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

— Julia Cameron

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter