Being free Quote by Joyce Maynard

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because…

— Robert Cormier

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural,…

— Charlotte Brontë

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

— Clifton Fadiman