Face to face Quote by Maurice Blanchot

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

— Orhan Pamuk

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people…

— Robert M. Pirsig

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were…

— Edmond Jabes

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams