Benign Quote by Michael Cunningham

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human…

— Susan Sontag

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

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

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

— W. G. Sebald

The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting…

— Seamus Heaney

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy