Books Quote by Susan Sontag

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

— Susan Sontag

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

— David Foster Wallace

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

— Harlan Ellison

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

— Rod Serling

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to…

— Elizabeth Berg

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan