Writing Quote by Platt Rogers Spencer

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

— José Saramago

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change…

— Nicole Huggins

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“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

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald