Causes Quote by Randall Jarrell

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

— Arthur Miller

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are…

— Lev Grossman

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

— Lynn Freed

“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

— Paul Auster