Belonging Quote by Henry Roth

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

— Francois Mauriac

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

— Ernest Hemingway

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still…

— Storm Jameson

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer…

— Irving Stone

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