Bad man Quote by Seamus Heaney

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as…

— Stephen King

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not,…

— Edward Albee

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson