Giving Quote by Matthew Specktor

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

— Matthew Specktor

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

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

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

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

— Richard Flanagan

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus