Ability Quote by Walt Whitman

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human…

— Erica Jong

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety…

— Samuel Johnson

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

— Edwin Percy Whipple