America Quote by Gore Vidal

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

— Raymond Carver

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for the worse.”

— Chris Colfer

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A writer is the conscience of the world.”

— Doris Lessing

“This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate…

— Thomas Wolfe

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

— George Orwell

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd

“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink in the…

— Janet Frame

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built…

— Milan Kundera

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them…

— Cyril Connolly