Writing Quote by José Saramago

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“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

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“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

“A writer's mind can never be empty.”

— Michael Acciarino

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“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

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom