Human beings Quote by Niall Williams

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

— Cynthia Ozick

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James…

— Gary Shteyngart

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers…

— Zadie Smith

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

— Marianne Williamson

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not…

— Sol Stein

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

— Barbara Kingsolver