Cynicism Quote by Jane Gardam

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

— Don DeLillo

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

— Ronald Fisher

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

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein