Can do Quote by Willa Cather

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change…

— Nicole Huggins

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is…

— John Updike

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey