Committed Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“As a journalist, he always felt a sense of commitment not only to the piece he had written, but to the individual, event, or…

— Bandi

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary…

— Peter Straub

“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.…

— Thomas Mann

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own…

— Arthur Miller

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

— Anonymous

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local…

— Renata Adler