Crucifixion Quote by Hugh Kingsmill

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And…

— James D. Houston

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude…

— Christian Bobin

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

— Edward Abbey

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to…

— Cheryl Strayed

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud