Answers Quote by Sol Stein

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for…

— Roxana Robinson

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

— Richard Flanagan

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a…

— Mary Oliver

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

— Seth Godin

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

— Roy Peter Clark

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie