Writer Quotes

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.

Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.