About Quote by Harvey Pekar

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing…

— George Saunders

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

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

— Eric Hill

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without…

— David Mitchell

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where…

— David Eddings

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

— Theodor Adorno

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

“The arrogance of writing comes not from the finished creation, but from the very act itself. What hubris is required for a single mind…

— Alec Hutson

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul