Cloud Quote by Sara Sheridan

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a…

— Sara Sheridan

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone who struggles…

— Christian Bobin

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

— Francois Mauriac

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The…

— William Saroyan

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

— Hilma Wolitzer

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum