Writing Quote by T.S. Eliot

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can only influence…

— Aldous Huxley

“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.”

— Jeff Goins

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.”

— Margie B. Klein

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor