Anticipate Quote by Wole Soyinka

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow…

— Diane Johnson

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“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

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

“The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all…

— Chloe Thurlow

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

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

— William Sansom

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to…

— Roald Dahl

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for…

— Norman Mailer