Get away Quote by George Saunders

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings…

— Michel de Montaigne

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau