Point of view Quote by Sol Stein

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to…

— Caitlin Horrocks

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.”

— J.P. Donleavy

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied "For praise." Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote for glory.…

— James Salter

“Allowing yourself to make mistakes can ultimately go beyond a writer’s block.”

— Neeraj Agnihotri