Beggars Quote by Octavio Paz

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

— Charles Bukowski

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

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 think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the authorities here]…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

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

— George Orwell

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz