Birth Quote by Rebecca West

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

— Zakes Mda

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

— Emily Yoffe