American writer Quote by Philip Roth

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the…

— K. Lee Lerner

“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live…

— Stephen King

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

— Eugenio Montale

“As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment…

— Will Blythe

“Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer.”

— Michael Lewis

“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”

— Robert Mykle

“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”

— David Burr Gerrard