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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

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• A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can’t direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can’t change anything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

  Woody Guthrie

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• The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

  Robertson Davies

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• If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

  John Ciardi

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• The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat – Like an unsuccessful literary man.

  Hilaire Belloc

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• The waste basket is a writer’s best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.

  Alexander Pushkin

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• How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

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• A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

  John K. Hutchens

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• If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

  Epictetus

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• Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters – not so much above the clatter as part of it.

  Saul Bellow

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• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

  Bernard Keble Sandwell

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• Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

  Mordecai Richler

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• I’ve put my genius into my life; I’ve only put my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

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• All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

  Saul Bellow

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• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

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• He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.

  Irving Howe

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