Consistently Quote by George Saunders

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

— Michael Ian Black

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters,…

— Tanith Lee

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

— Vanna Bonta

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

— Rick Moody

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

I find no intellect comparable to my own

— Margaret Fuller

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

— Don Gibson

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I…

— Haruki Murakami