Art Quote by Margaret Walker

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of…

— William Faulkner

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect…

— Robert J. Sawyer

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and…

— F. Sionil Jose

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being…

— David Shields

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is.…

— Nadine Gordimer

The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to…

— May Sarton

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that…

— Kenneth Tynan