Columnists Quote by John Grimond

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

“Writers write because they're writers.”

— Brian A. McBride

“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can…

— John Freeman

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.”

— H Raven Rose

“Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“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