Psychology Quote by Harlan Ellison

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels…

— Lucas Mann

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

— Oscar Wilde

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises…

— Daniel Handler

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and…

— Scott Lynch