Fascinating Quote by Julianna Baggott

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about.…

— Harry Crews

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's…

— George Carlin

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us,…

— Andre Dubus

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke