Big book Quote by Marguerite Young

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

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on.…

— Colum McCann

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

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, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

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

— Rod Serling

“For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only…

— Martin Cosgrove