Writing Quote by Joy Williams

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others,…

— Joy Williams

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself…

— Joy Williams

“what it means to serve Him. I am writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will”

— Katie J. Davis

“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

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

“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

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“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

“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.”

— Nancy LaRonda Johnson

“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