Ideas Quote by Henry Mancini

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he…

— George Saunders

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

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

— Walter Kirn

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

“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

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

— Anonymous

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

— Jorge Luis Borges

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes;…

— Malcolm Cowley

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

— Anonymous

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at…

— Roald Dahl