Deny Quote by George Saunders

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

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

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the…

— Hilton Als

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

— Margaret Mahy

The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should…

— Richard Rodriguez

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

— Lynn Coady

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros