Avant garde Quote by Ray Bradbury

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine, shout, and…

— Alexina Benavidez

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler

“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.”

— Ashim Shanker

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

— Cinda Williams Chima

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan