Breaths Quote by Tennessee Williams

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

— Walter Kirn

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the…

— William Morris

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

— Vicki Baum

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary…

— Peter Straub

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron