Ideas Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

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

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he…

— George Saunders

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka