Becomes Quote by Mark Kurlansky

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

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 do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

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

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

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us,…

— Wallace Shawn

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke