Exorcism Quote by Harper Lee

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

— Dario Argento

I can appreciate other writers' works.

— Clive Cussler

“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 should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.”

— Irwin Shaw

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

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

— Charles Caleb Colton