Cusp Quote by Jane Smiley

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

— Dennis Potter

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

— Holly Black

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts to capture…

— Stefan Bachmann

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a…

— Donald Barthelme

“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what a rich…

— Gustave Flaubert

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

— Alice McDermott

“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart…

— Sy Safransky