Community Quote by Saul Bellow

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

— Alberto Moravia

“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of…

— Mark Slouka

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who…

— George Saunders

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that…

— Nathan M. Pusey

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

— Gulzar

“Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.”

— Kensington Gore