Able Quote by John McGahern

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

— Annie Dillard

“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.”

— Douglas Wilson

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have…

— Don DeLillo

“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your…

— Maegan Cook

“If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying…

— Eugène Ionesco

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis