Concern Quote by Richard Hugo

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

— Carol Bly

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

— Steven Gundry

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding…

— Gertrude Atherton

“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

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good…

— Lynn Abbey

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

— Ravi Subramanian

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize…

— Nadine Gordimer

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without…

— Robert Grudin

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in…

— Colum McCann