Assumption Quote by Seamus Heaney

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Julian Barnes

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

— Ann Beattie

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams