Nature Quote by Julian Barnes

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he…

— Flannery O'Connor

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

“A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque…

— Marcel Proust

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“On being conscious of being a writer: As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra…

— John Updike

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at…

— Eudora Welty