Psychology Quote by Morley Callaghan

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.”

— Mark Pryor

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.”

— Anne Lamott

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

— Toba Beta

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”

— Anne Lamott

“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”

— Alyssa Hubbard