Honest Quote by Tennessee Williams

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them -…

— Rod Serling

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott