Another man Quote by William Saroyan

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

— Irwin Shaw

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as…

— Joel Dicker

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving