Curiosity Quote by Phillip Athans

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty