Exaggerated Quote by Thomas Merton

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think…

— Glen Duncan

My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which…

— Andrew Sullivan

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

— Karl Popper

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become…

— Brenda Ueland

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

I am not a writer at all, I am just a person who is trying to share the things he made wrong will not…

— Nishan Panwar

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

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

— Rod Serling

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

— Philip Pullman