Attention Quote by Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

— Paulo Coelho

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

— John Dos Passos

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”

— Alexei Maxim Russell

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

A writer is someone who has written something today

— J. A. Jance

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human…

— Susan Sontag

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller