Certain Quote by Hilary Mantel

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

— Pat Barker

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

— Henning Mankell

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center…

— Valeria Luiselli

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is…

— Daniel Handler

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able…

— Tracy Chapman

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam